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“We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.”

Percent Program Extras Spares Spare Time

Author:John L. Phillips

“Plutonium is so hazardous that if you had a fully developed nuclear economy with breeder reactors fueled with plutonium, and you managed to contain the plutonium 99.99 percent perfectly, it would still cause somewhere between 140,000 and 500,000 extra lung-cancer fatalities each year.”

Ifs Years Stills Causes Economy Percent Cancer Nuclear Extras Lungs Fatality Lung Cancer Plutonium Breeders

Author:John Gofman

“There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and these are not women that are on welfare, these are working women. How different would there life be if they're making an extra 40 to 60 cents to the dollar. We can't do this to our kids anymore.”

Ifs Life Different Kids Life Is Mother Levels Poverty Millions Percent Dollars Welfare Extras Cents Single Mother Working Women

Author:Patricia Arquette

“I love attacking and racing aggressively, and obviously it's a big bonus when you're making an attack and you look around and you see the guys making faces because they're in pain, that just gives you that extra little percent to make them hurt even more.”

Giving Looks Littles Bigs Pain Faces Guy Hurt Percent Extras Racing Attacking Bonus

Author:Magnus Backstedt

“I think that what we put on our skin and what we eat, you just cannot compromise. You cannot keep on putting things that are toxic and that are going to compromise your health on your skin. Your skin absorbs. It's the same as eating. Over 60 percent is absorbed directly into your blood stream. So to me paying that little bit extra is absolutely worth it. It's health insurance.”

Thinking Littles Bits Blood Eating Little Bit Percent Skins Compromise Streams Extras Toxic Worth It

Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano

“Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.”

Writing Years Sometimes Song Percent Extras

Author:Skrillex

“If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.”

“At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.”

Giving Humans Looks Three Color Type Percent Female Majority Mere Extras Fourth Identical Mutation Genetic Mutation

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.”

Facts Knowing Magic Percent Extras Ninety Discworld

Author:Terry Pratchett