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“Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.”

People Enough Facts Wanted Listening Percent Hundred Medical Guarantees

Author:Ryan White

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”

People World Funny Society Danger Fool Percent Nine Insane Insanity Ninety Ninety Nine Contagion Insanity And Sanity

Author:Thornton Wilder

“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.”

People Body Brain Birth Percent Complicated Gender Your Body Defects Transgender Alignment Neurosis Palate Birth Defects

Author:Chaz Bono

“People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.”

People Ifs Shows Jobs Community Internet Percent Shots Appreciate Series Breathing Episodes Ninety

Author:Felicia Day

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”

People Thinking Dies Five Ten Percent Eighty Willful Ignorance

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.”

People World Way Order Cutting Alive Heard Stupid Percent Quitting Wicked Meaningless Pointless Staying Alive Babbling Flyers Wicked World

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.”

People Percent Gun Responsible Nine Owners Ninety Ninety Nine Gun Owners

Author:Jan Brewer

“People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.”

People Five Teacher Listening Percent Twenties Twenty Five

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.”

People Want Different Enough Care Christian Interest Alive Mass Percent Hundred Witty Don't Care Chosen Breathing I Don't Care Fascinating Companion Charming Corny Charitable

Author:Betty MacDonald

“Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.”

People Mind Christian Church Christianity Atheism Goes On Percent Hundred Intelligent Atheist Connected Nine Sooner Or Later Bullshit Ninety Christian Church Ninety Nine

Book:Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.”

People Life Five Percent Ninety Untrue People In Your Life Trueness Mistruths

Book:The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

“In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's the same people in every poll.”

People Knows Percent Understood Polls

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so.”

People World Doe Stills Christian Names Becoming Percent Clergymen

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.”

People Might Asks College Wall Percent Hung Ninety

Book:The Teeth Of The Tiger

Source: The Teeth Of The Tiger

“I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.”

People Thinking Needs Should Mean Country Percent Income Gdp Gross Domestic Product

Author:Warren Buffett

“I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.”

People Ifs Looks Children Hard Reason Today Earth Night Certain Born Too Much Baby Birth Drink Thousand Percent Hundred Accidents Aliens Flattering Birth Control

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I wanted to kick Bruce in the taint. No one is just one thing. Many things contribute to the whole of a person, and just because vodka accounts for 50 percent of my body weight, that doesn't mean I walk around with a vodka drip, forcing every plant, person, or animal to imbibe. I've always had a disliking for animal trainers, and this guy cemented my theory that people who chaperone animals for a living have never had a girl sit on their face.”

People Mean Persons Whole Body Wanted Faces Guy Girl Walks Animal One Thing Theory Percent Weight Accounts Plant Kicks Just One This Guy Trainers Vodka Body Weight Chaperones

Author:Chelsea Handler

“Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.”

People Law Given Band Music Is Percent Guitar Crap Ninety

Author:David Byrne

“I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.”

People Two Chance Percent Cells Fifty

Book:Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown

Source: Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown

“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.”

People Earth Three Can Do Walks Five Percent Saint Ninety

Author:Stephen King

“It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do.”

People Inspirational Doe Matter Inspiring Situation Particular Six Percent Sixty Autism

Book:Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers

Source: Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers

“Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.”

People Goes On Percent Eight Ninety Ninety Eight

Book:Lisey's Story: A Novel

Source: Lisey's Story: A Novel

“People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.”

People Reason Seems Lasts Hate Worry Five Four Groups Percent Twenties Like Me Divided Hate Me Twenty Five Wrong Reasons

Author:Robert Frost

“If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.”

People Ifs Jobs Our Lives Percent Worried Last Lecture

Book:The last lecture

Source: The last lecture

“There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.”

People Thinking Years Looks Persons Real Realizing Chance Rooms Five Four Figures Healthy Beats Percent Cancer Math Kicks Five Years Irrational Competitiveness Healthy Person

Book:Looking for Alaska

Source: Looking for Alaska

“The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.”

People Thinking Men Humans Wells Ends Race Mistake Heard Activity Percent Originals Average Positive Atheism Human Race Repetition Cliche Average Man Original Thought

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by 20 percent of the participants. In most societies, 20 percent of criminals commit 80 percent of crimes. Twenty percent of motorists cause 80 percent of all accidents. Twenty percent of beer drinkers drink 80 percent of all beer. When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work.”

“It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time." She craned her head back to look up at him. "Ninety-five percent? What's the other five percent?" "Oh, you know, the usual--demons I might kill, runes I need to learn, people who've annoyed me recently, people who've annoyed me not so recently, ducks." "Ducks?”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.”

People Thinking Sometimes Kids Parent Figures Quiet Authority Smart Percent Adults Assuming Raised Worthy Idiot Respectful Interacting Older People Be Respectful Authority Figures

Author:Mindy Kaling

“13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.”

People Want Made Percent Tables Instance Cake Disagree Roof Arrangements Percentages Occasional Dessert

Author:Daniel Handler

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

“Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.”

People Teach Percent Population

Author:George Orwell

“I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery.”

People House Knowing Eating Percent Slavery Smell Drivers Truck Ninety Monotonous Hangover Waffles Open Road Truck Driver Monotonous Life

Author:J.A. Redmerski

“One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and always try to pick your lock and steal your television. And the rest will be honest as long as the conditions are right - but if they are tempted enough, they'll be dishonest too. Locks won't protect you from the thieves, who can get in your house if they really want to. They will only protect you from the mostly honest people who might be tempted to try your door if it had no lock".”

Source: The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves