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“Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?”

Facts Home Age Community Five Media Acceptance Percent Old Age Experts Sixty Emphasis Ninety Nursing Nursing Home

Book:Fountain of Age

Source: Fountain of Age

“If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Feels Years Looks Made Age Film Guy Becoming Giving Up Percent Graves Coming Of Age Admitting Becoming A Man

Author:Kevin Bacon

“Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me.”

Want Use Government Age Church Practice Percent Catholic Eight Consistent Federal Government Ninety Contraception Childbearing Ninety Eight Private Insurance

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.”

Has Beens Two States Age School United United States Percent High School Thirds Jail Prisoner Eighty Dropouts School Dropout High School Dropout

Author:Kamala Harris

“In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.”

Years Book Age Past Technology Students College Conversation Empathy Percent Arguing Vulnerable Digital Decline Digital Age College Students Markers

Author:Judy Woodruff

“Today, you have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That’s right, with your college diploma you now have a crushing advantage over 8 percent of the workforce. I'm talking about dropout losers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.”

Knows Age Today Jobs Force Talking Special College Percent Advantage Mark Bills Eight Crush Gates Loser Something Special Diploma Dropouts Zuckerberg

Author:Conan O'Brien

“What Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that you avoid golden-age thinking and romantic melancholy and you just keep pushing.”

Thinking Mean Said Age Fighting Percent Golden Pushing Melancholy Golden Age

Author:Robert Hass

“A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco - and I think a lot of what's going on there is that the self-control areas of the brain are finally developed enough to be able to stop yourself from relapsing or just continuing. There is a maturational aspect to it as well.”

Thinking Wells Ends Self Enough Age Able Brain Percent Areas Aspect Addiction Exception Self Control Continuing Tobacco Age 30

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“In 2012, Hispanics were 10 percent of the electorate, underperforming their share of the voting-age population. Mitt Romney got 21 percent of their vote, and [Donald] Trump has been polling much lower than that.”

Has Beens Age Share Trump Percent Vote Population Voting Romney Electorate Polling Voting Age

Author:Mara Liasson

“Before you go into what is essentially a competition, you have to have that confidence. You have to ask yourself, "Are they looking for a guy my height? My age? I've got a shot." And if there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.”

Ifs Needs Age Guy Asks Hair Genius Percent Shots Advantage Okay Competition Nine Height Dozen Auditions Gorgeous Dimes Goofy Bad Hair

Author:Tom Hanks

“80 percent of the Dutch jihadists who go to fight in Syria are Moroccans. 80 percent. They are 22 times over represented when it comes to street crime, and 60 percent of the Moroccan youth under the age of 23 has been arrested at least once.”

Has Beens Age Fighting Streets Crime Youth Percent Syria Arrested Dutch

Author:Geert Wilders

“For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.”

Inspirational Children Age Today Funny Class Middle Students College Percent Middle Class Wealthy Graduates Graduation Working Class Upper Middle Class Students Today

Author:Patrick J. Kennedy

“The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5.”

World Children Age Dying Percent Tragedy Incredibles

Author:Bill Gates

“In 1990, one in 10 children died before the age of five. That's now down to one in 20, and vaccines were the single biggest factor in that. Had it stayed at 10 percent, 122 million more children would have died.”

Children Age Millions Five Percent Died Factors Vaccines

Author:Bill Gates

“Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.”

People Ifs Feels States Seems Would Be Age Courses Lost Nations Black Race Figures Drug Comfortable Percent Moved African American Uncomfortable Jail Black People Offense Veils Arrested

Author:Michelle Alexander

“Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.”

Years Children Country Age Past Mother Fall Growth Born Five Violence Risk Crime Disease Percent Adults Increase Primaries Wages Literacy Spurs Decrease Likelihood Later In Life Primary Education

Author:Shakira

“Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.”

Years Believe Heart Children Facts Kids Age School Parent Risk Disease Percent Blame Factors Overweight Heart Disease Obese

Author:Alison Sweeney

“If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.”

Ifs Littles Book Age Week Percent Starting Print

Author:Lewis Buzbee

“According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.”

Thinking Persons Age Religious Levels Products Circumstances Research Percent Determination Accounts Currents Gender Income Occupation Genetics Ethnicity Affiliation

Book:The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Source: The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun