“The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.” YearsAbilityCollegeTenDrawsPercentComplexesAverageComplicatedGraduatesLiteracyInferenceCollege GraduatesLengthy Author:Charles Colson
“Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.” ThinkingWantPercentComplicatedCardsCyclesBusiness Card Author:Bill Gates
“There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.” PeopleBodyBrainBirthPercentComplicatedGenderYour BodyDefectsTransgenderAlignmentNeurosisPalateBirth Defects Author:Chaz Bono
“Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a zombie through the same steps of the dance we plodded through yesterday and the day before and the day before. It seems horribly dull and pointless-but it really makes a great deal of sense. After all, if you only have to follow the same path every day, you don't need to think at all. Considering how good humans are at any mental process more complicated than chewing, isn't that the best for everybody?” IfsThinkingNeedsHumansSeemsActionMovingLife IsProcessDealsStepsPathPercentTiredComplicatedYesterdayNineHuman LifeDullConsideringNinetyZombiePointlessChewingNinety Nine Book:Double Dexter: Dexter Morgan (6) Source: Double Dexter: Dexter Morgan (6)
“It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.” WorldDifferentMatterReasonRealizingCommonRaceFocusConflictPercentNo Matter WhatComplicatedGenderBackgroundsInabilityContentious Book:Every Day Source: Every Day