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“We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.”

Ifs Way Helping Term Chance Deals Events Havens Type Weapons Lows Percent Scientist Treats Impact Threat Response Nuclear Defined Certainty Als Nuclear Weapons Probability Al Qaeda

Author:Dick Cheney

“While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.”

Years Balance Percent Performances Accounts Impact Fund Unpredictable Annuals Fees

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'”

Men Firsts Humans Country Black President Percent Election Impact Tension Human History Racial Tension

Author:Dennis Prager

“Although population and consumption are societal issues, technology is the business of business. If economic activity must increase tenfold over what it is today to support a population nearly double its current size, then technology will have to reduce its impact twenty-fold merely to keep the planet at its current levels of environmental impact. For example, to stabilize the climate we may have to reduce real carbon emissions by as much as 80 percent, while simultaneously growing the world economy by an order of magnitude.”

Source: Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World

“Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.”

Ifs Sometimes Running Effort Huge Percent Difficulty Impact Details Minors

Author:Michael Schumacher

“... The reality is that atmospheric CO2 has a minimal impact on greenhouse gases and world temperature. Water vapor is responsible for 95 percent of the greenhouse effect. CO2 contributes just 3.6 percent, with human activity responsible for only 3.2 percent of that. That is why some studies claim CO2 levels are largely irrelevant to global warming.”

World Humans Reality Water Levels Study Effects Activity Percent Claims Responsible Impact Global Warming Irrelevant Temperature Human Activity Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Co2 Vapor

Author:Walter Cunningham

“Speaking about our largest oil company Rosneft, and I recalled in the beginning that almost 20 percent of it [19.7] belongs to BP. Who's company is that? British Petroleum, isn't it? I suppose that is not bad. I have to tell that British Petroleum's capitalization is significantly related to the fact that it owns more than 19 percent of Rosneft, which has vast oil reserves both in Russia and abroad. This has its impact on the company's stability as well.”

Wells Facts Company Percent Impact British Oil Russia Related Stability Reserves Oil Companies Petroleum Capitalization

Author:Vladimir Putin

“More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.”

Home Nations Community Economy Percent Impact Ass Good Times Positive Impact Homeowners Homeownership

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.”

Character Action Film Used Painting Percent Impact Action Films

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.”

Life Happens Life Is Attitude Percent Impact Incredibles Convinced Good Christian

Book:The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart

Source: The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart