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“I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.”

Persons Jobs Situation Calling Percent Rate Seeking Genuine Opening Employment Unemployment

Book:Public Economics: Selected Papers by William Vickrey

Source: Public Economics: Selected Papers by William Vickrey

“But there is a difference between playing well and hitting the ball well. Hitting the ball well is about thirty percent of it. The rest is being comfortable with the different situations on the course.”

Wells Different Courses Differences Situation Comfortable Percent Balls Golf Thirty Hitting

Author:Mickey Wright

“I have a song I wrote called “Autobiography.” I came from a very intense living situation, with having a parent on drugs and not having a lot of money. So I always want to talk about the real things. But I think 90 percent of my music, I want it to be 'feel-good music'. I'm already recording tracks for my album, but when it comes time to actually say, 'this is the album,' I may be in a completely different space than I'm in right now.”

Thinking Want Feels May Different Real Song Parent Space Situation Right Now Drug Percent Track Albums Intense Feel Good Lots Of Money Autobiography Real Things

Author:Nicki Minaj

“I control every interaction with every human being I'm with. I can actually manage any situation with 98 percent of the people on Earth.”

People Humans I Can Earth Human Beings Situation Percent Manage Interaction

Author:Will Smith

“Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.”

Years Said States Lasts America Situation Five Four Percent Years Ago Supreme Islamic Five Years Department Controlled Council Extremist Mosques

Author:Peter King

“I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.”

Able Remember Actors Situation Position Lucky Percent France Working It

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

“I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.”

Thinking Hard Play Realizing Situation Involved Percent Balls Reactions Diving

Author:Morgan Ensberg

“If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.”

Ifs Stills Moving Black Community Church Situation Doors Majors Percent Institutions Folks Black Community Black Church

Author:Cornel West

“I am 100 percent confident. This is a security review that was requested. It is being carried out. It will be resolved. But I have to add if there's going to be a security review about me, there's going to have to be security reviews about a lot of other people, including Republican office holders, because we've got this absurd situation of retroactive classifications.”

People Ifs Situation Security Republican Office Percent Add Including Absurd Reviews Classification

Author:Hillary Clinton

“When we talk about gender pay gaps in the United States, and if you look at women without children, they earn 96 cents for every dollar that a man is earning, while for mothers it is about 76 cents. That's nearly 25 percent less. For single mothers, the situation is even worse. One third of them are living in poverty or just on the edge of poverty. This is an unacceptable situation.”

Ifs Men Looks Children States Mother United Pay Situation Poverty United States Percent Thirds Dollars Edges Gender Gaps Cents Earning Single Mother Pay Gap

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“It's just a moment that doesn't feel 100-percent truthful, a kind of a square peg/round hole situation. Which is why the preproduction on a movie is so important, because you can't just push those through.”

Feels Kind Important Moments Situation Percent Rounds Holes Squares Truthful Peg Square Pegs

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.”

Wells America Romance Situation Alive Failing Percent Complexes Selfishness

Author:Donny Osmond

“When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.”

Years Looks May Ends Country Situation Serious Happenings Percent Dollars Debt Nine Plus Coming Out Fourth Unemployment Deficit

Author:Allen West

“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

“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.”