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“Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.”

Years Stills Energy Hours Millions Technology Produce Research Percent Iraq Nine Alternatives Hopeful Electricity Solar Power

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. And what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America”

People Years Has Beens America Hours Class Millions Technology Middle Huge Periods Percent Increase Dollars Disappear Productivity Despite Middle Class Massive Wages Transfers

Author:Lindsey Graham

“If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.”

Ifs Way Matter Running Success Lost Hours Five Percent Make Sense Seconds Ninety Marathon Outstanding

Author:Ralph Marston

“What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.”

Trying Hours Tree Minutes Bears Percent Hundred Our Time Frogs

Author:Stephen Fry

“People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.”

People Hours Week Percent

Author:Warren Farrell

“I only wear heels when it's 100-percent required, and even sometimes not then. I have to talk myself into a bra. I've done an hour of standup where I've been like, "I don't have to wear a bra tonight." If you're going to be on camera, you have to get it together, but other than that, I am pretty lazy as a woman.”

Ifs Sometimes Done Together Hours Percent Cameras Lazy Tonight Heels Bras I Am Pretty Get It Together

Author:Amy Schumer

“We spend about 20 percent of our total sleep time in a dream state. For most of us, this means we dream one and a half hours each night or, on the average, spend four years of our lifetime in a dream state.”

Years Mean States Dream Night Hours Sleep Half Four Percent Lifetime Average Four Years Half Hours Time To Sleep

Book:Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

Source: Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

“When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.”

Hours Five Balance Percent Hundred Miles Throttle

Author:Yanni

“The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.”

Writing Reason Hours Creating Percent Lifetime Creating Something

Book:Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

Source: Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

“I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.”

Persons Today School Law Hours Class Four Please Ten Percent Doctors Mortals Prudence Dean Law School Dizzy Honorary

Author:Branch Rickey

“Peak hours for sending a first email through the online dating system tended to be during work (eleven A.M. to four P.M.) and then just after dinner (seven P.M. to nine P.M.). I did have a few women send me a first message after eleven P.M. Those who did had an 82 percent chance of coming from a profile that had too many words.”

Firsts Hours Chance Four Messages Percent Dating Seven Dinner Nine Online Email Eleven Profile Online Dating

Author:Amy Webb

“Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.”

“We also ought to recognize that unpaid labor falls predominantly to women. The other thing I would do in countries like the U.S. is to show more men, even in TV ads, doing household work. Only two percent of ads show men doing chores, and yet we know they actually do several hours of it in real life. Those images affect young boys and girls.”

Knows Men Two Real Country Shows Young Fall Girl Hours Boys Tvs Ought Percent Labor Real Life Ads Household Show Me Chores Boy And Girl

Author:Melinda Gates

“In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. They would come to our house as beggars even though they might have a college education. People didn't have money. They bartered; they'd trade eggs or pigs. It was just completely different.”

People Men Different Might Remember House Hours College Grew Walking Grew Up Percent Trade Dollars Warm Eggs Pigs Unemployment Beggar Great Depression College Education Grown Man

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.”

Thinking Hours Percent Increase Mortality

Author:Mehmet Oz

“I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.”

Made Running Sound Hours Week Balance Percent Yoga Hot Train Everyday Flexibility Surf Lame Skates Days Of The Week Hot Yoga Biometrics

Author:Ryan Sheckler

“Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.”

Thinking Hours Five Teaching Percent Employment Unemployed Youngsters

Author:Edward de Bono

“Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!”

Thinking Men World Wells Art Hours Four Percent Twenties Valuable Nine Luxury Enjoyed Flats Rats Eighty Pizza Delivery Heating Adidas

Book:Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

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