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“Although the traditional focus of Valentine's Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do men like to get gifts for Valentine's Day, but they also like those gifts to be luxurious. Sixty-three percent of the people we surveyed agreed that this Valentine's Day, Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a great gift for the men in their lives.”

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?”

Facts Home Age Community Five Media Acceptance Percent Old Age Experts Sixty Emphasis Ninety Nursing Nursing Home

Book:Fountain of Age

Source: Fountain of Age

“Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.”

Want Rooms Talking Four Equal Percent Silent Access Honestly Managers Killers Sixty Mentoring

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive”

People Wells Would Be Used Results Knowing Dog Percent Tasks Scientist Rewards Punishment Experiments Performing Sixty Replaced Earning

Author:Steve Aylett

“Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans.”

Believe Hands Five Evolution Republican Percent Don't Believe Eight Sixty Monkeys

Author:Stephen Colbert

“When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.”

Firsts Character Shows Dark Audience Percent Hundred First Time Spots Fifty Introducing Sixty Lit

Author:Peter Stormare

“Every morning I'd have coffee with my wife and we would discuss ideas. Sixty percent of what I did for the stores was concepts. The other forty percent was correcting and cleaning up other concepts in house, or doing final art on my concepts. Most of my concepts were so finished they could turn them over to somebody else.”

Art Ideas Turns House Morning Wife Percent Concepts Finals My Wife Finished Stores Coffee Forty Sixty Every Morning Cleaning Correcting Cleaning Up

Author:Mike Royer

“Sixty-five percent of Americans say they know nothing about either Muhammad or Islam.”

Knows Five Percent Islam Sixty Muhammad

Author:Deepak Chopra

“In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going "That's weird."”

States Percent California Governors Sixty Nazi Hispanic

Author:Robin Williams

“Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?”

Ifs Humans Use Used Human Beings Brain Imagine Ten Percent Accomplish Sixty

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce.”

Men Stills Reason Three Difficult Four Wife Rights Students Percent Female University Divorce Iran Offering Sixty Womens Rights Violation University Students

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“The Los Angeles Times reported that sixty-three percent of American families are now considered dysfunctional. Good. 'Cause that means when Armageddon really happens, thirty-seven percent of this population is going to lose their minds. Oh my God, the world is over! Us sixty-three percent? We're going to go, Hey... there's no one watching the Lexus dealership! We're going to the Apocalypse with leather and a CD changer! You guys have been great. Thank you.”

World Mind Mean Has Beens Happens Guy Three Causes Loses Percent Seven Population Hey Thirty Los Angeles Sixty Apocalypse Leather Cds Armageddon American Family Good Causes Lexus

Author:Christopher Titus

“Sixty one percent of Donald Trump`s supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump`s lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the thousands of Muslims Donald Trump lies about having seen celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11.”

“Lake Baikal in Russia has 25 percent of the freshwater resources of the world. Sixty-five percent of the Russian ecosystems are in danger. So let's preserve what we have, and let's take good care of nature.”

World Care Five Danger Percent Resources Russia Preserves Lakes Sixty Ecosystems

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two.”

Want Two Love Is Five Modern Percent Rate Rounds Divorce Fifty Enterprise Sixty Divorce Rates Modern Love

Author:Esther Perel

“Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher.”

People Ifs Choices Given Plans Trouble Higher Percent Doctors Explanation Hospitals Healthcare Sixty Seventies Medicare Free Choice Qualifying

Author:Ralph Nader

“I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal articles are never quoted (which means leaving no trace on our joint scholarly pursuits), and (in my reception at any rate) the "learned journals" (with a few miraculous exceptions that entail, prominently, TCS) ooze monumental boredom.”

Mean Facts Percent Blame Rate Leaving Pursuit Boredom Exception Carrie Suspects Reviews Articles Sixty Peers Journal Miraculous Joints Reception Scholarly Peer Review

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Sixty-eight percent of the pregnancies in the United States are neither prepared for nor expected. Of those sixty-eight percent, quite a bit end in abortion, but still there are a large number of children that come in this world without being expected.”

World Children Stills Ends States Bits United Numbers United States This World Percent Prepared Eight Expected Abortion Pregnancy Sixty Large Numbers

Author:Laura Huxley

“There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.”

Years Done Company Vision Technology Study Century Industry Couple Percent Entrepreneur Internals Engines Sixty 20th Century Automobile Combustion Automobile Industry

Author:Eric Ries

“There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.”

Way Looks Reason Today Used Feminism Hair Exercise Percent Reason Why Fifty Forty Los Angeles Gray Sixty Manhattan American Woman Hair Dye

Author:Nora Ephron

“The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.”

Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading

“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

“Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.”

Writing Grew Grew Up Percent Areas Population Indian Native Ironic Native American Sixty Urban Reservations American Writer Urban Areas Ironic Things

Author:Sherman Alexie

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