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“Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.”

Years States Today College Mom Dad Percent Years Ago University Inflation Going To College

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.”

“I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.”

Thinking Knows Years Cities Know How Happened Six Losing Percent Vote Seven Seats Get Over Council Seven Years City Council

Author:Tom Hayden

“Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.”

Years States United Millions United States Five Percent Seven Ships Containers Cargo

Author:Irwin Redlener

“We lost one (Finals), we won two and we lost another one. (We'll) take 50 percent in four years in championships any day. Obviously, we want to win all of them, but that's just the nature of the game. Not proud of the way we played (in this series).”

Way Want Years Two Games Winning Lost Four Proud Percent Series Four Years Championship Nba Championships Lost Ones Nba Finals

Author:LeBron James

“Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent.”

Years Growth Community Half Expectations Percent Viewers June Broadcasters

Author:Emmett Shear

“Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.”

Years Eye Earth Brain Feet Atheism Percent Years Ago Tools Sticks Errors Positive Atheism Experiments Plus Precision Zest

Author:Carl Sagan

“If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year. [...] And when somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money, you can lie about your income a little, or we'll give you 100 percent mortgage, you're going to do it, because everybody that's done it has been proven right. You have what they call social tools, and, you know, you're going to feel like an idiot if you didn't do it, because the house cost more.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Feels Years Littles Has Beens Done Lying Next House Social Easy Cost Percent Tools Income Idiot Proven Next Year Mortgage House Prices

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.”

“Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring.”

People Years Two Ideas Found Simple Study Happened Trouble Week Team Percent Quitting No Idea Explanation Resolution New Year Two Weeks Psychologist New Year's Resolutions Monitoring

Author:Dave Barry

“Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?”

Ifs Years States Realizing Results Numbers Millions Economy College Degrees Percent Adults Increase Add Billions Income Arkansas College Degree

Author:Mike Huckabee

“For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.”

“I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.”

Years Important Country Care Percent I Care Pledge Gangnam Style

Author:Saxby Chambliss

“The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting worse, the deterioration by professionals is getting worse. The public would be better off in an index fund.”

Years Would Be Four Percent Investing Fund Better Off Equity Deterioration Index Funds Bagger

Author:Peter Lynch

“The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals.”

“Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.”

Years Long Order Given Half Five Four Ten Percent Investing Favors Nine Gambling Odds Casinos

Author:Burton Malkiel

“You see, the Foreign Service of the United States has grown so unbelievably in the last twenty years, and the requirements for admission are so high, and yet an awful lot of the work, I'd say fully 50-percent of the work in the Foreign Service abroad, is really routine work. All this is something that no one has licked.... You get a certain amount of discontent. It's bad for morale.”

Years States Lasts Certain United United States Amount Percent Twenties Awful Routine Requirements Discontent Admission Morale Foreign Service Routine Work

Author:Charles E. Bohlen

“I love my brother and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100 percent of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to.”

Love Giving Years Share Talent Brother Band Demand Equal Giving Up Percent Originals Agree Partners My Brother Employee Reducing Drummer Love My Brother

Author:Rich Robinson

“The Bush administration has been doing everything it can to hide the huge number of returning veterans who are severely wounded - 17,000 so far including roughly 20 percent with serious brain and head injuries. Even the estimate of $500 billion ignores the lifetime disability and healthcare costs that taxpayers will have to spend for years to come.”

Years Has Beens Numbers Brain Serious Huge Cost Percent Lifetime Including Billions Administration Injury Disability Healthcare Wounded Veteran Taxpayers Huge Numbers Head Injuries

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.”

Ifs Trying Years Hands Funny Remember Science Forget Half Technology Percent Seconds

Author:Tom Duff

“The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.”

Years Body Next Gone Percent Eight Atoms Shelves Ninety Next Year Molecules Shelf Life Ninety Eight

Author:Deepak Chopra

“There are statistics out that say 20 year olds, 18 years olds think about sex 90 percent of the time. They only don't think about sex when they're eating, and that's rare.”

Thinking Years Sex Eating Percent Statistics

Author:William H. Macy

“Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Lasts Can Do Realizing Simple Teach Teaching Students Percent

Author:Bruce Molsky

“If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.”

Ifs Years Country Grows Poor Half Talking Moral Percent Female Argument Population Arguing Finance Faster Ministers Harness Poor Countries

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“European carmakers pledged to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 percent from 1995 to 2008. We kept our word and reduced the value even more. This is not the result of short-term gimmickry. We decided years ago to develop the relevant models and engines, otherwise we wouldn't be able to offer them today.”

Years Today Able Values Term Results Offers Models Percent Years Ago Decided Engines Relevant Short Term Emissions Our Words Co2 Co2 Emissions

Author:Norbert Reithofer

“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

“The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and it's not democratic. And it will fall just like communism fell. The richest 1 percent now own 50 percent of the wealth. It didn't use to be that way. The average CEO 20 years ago made 20 times as much as the average employee. Now they make 212 times as much.”

“Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Looks Real Grows Economy Percent Blow Israel Iran Quarters Probability

Author:Steve Forbes

“We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.”

People Knows World Giving Years Enjoy Growth Chance Economy Standards Percent Rate Track China Determined Standards Of Living High Standards

Author:John Olver

“Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.”

Years Social Attention Watches Technology Study Generations Media Television Percent Social Media Diets Domain Deficit New Technology Surf Generation Y

Author:Kevin Kelly

“I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.”

Years Ideas Voice Return Taxes Percent No Idea Statistics Accurate Taxpayers Irs Tax Returns Voices In My Head

Author:Dave Barry

“Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.”

Years Chance Five Months Summer Percent Scientist Disappear Access Ice Data Five Years Navy Caps Submarines

Author:Al Gore

“24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.”

“Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Years Long Two Sometimes Technology Havens Wind Tomorrow Percent Decided Congress Nonsense Two Years Electricity New Technology Grids Lag Wind Power

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“In the Communist Party, we address problems very openly and sometimes very vocally, and we point out abuses. This is a good thing. We exercise self-criticism once a year. Although 80 percent of the members of the National Assembly are also members of the Communist Party, this does not prevent them from sharply criticizing the administrative and governmental system.”

Years Doe Self Sometimes Problem Party Exercise Members Percent Criticism Abuse Good Things Addresses Criticize Communist Assembly Administrative Communist Party Self Criticism

Author:Nguyen Minh Triet

“1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option.”

People Years Mother Hate Fall House Millions Fire Cost Percent Access Billions Income Atmosphere Electricity Carbon Lamps Carbon Dioxide Metrics

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.”

Ifs Years Problem Order Grows Growth Percent Credit Stable Gdp

Author:Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

“The idea that when people see prices falling they will stop buying those cheaper goods or cheaper food does not make much sense. And aiming for 2 percent inflation every year means that after a decade prices are more than 25 percent higher and the price level doubles every generation. That is not price stability, yet they call it price stability. I just do not understand central banks wanting a little inflation.”

People Years Mean Littles Doe Ideas Fall Levels Generations Higher Percent Decades Buying Goods Stability Inflation Cheaper Central Banks Price Stability

Author:Paul Volcker

“The past three years have seen a threefold increase in the number of participants of the state guarantee system. It has already exceeded 21 percent, and the trend will continue. We need a national rather than a government program of state guarantees”

Needs Years States Government Past Three Numbers Percent Program Increase Guarantees Trends Three Years Participants Government Programs

Author:Veronika Skvortsova

“The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year. Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population. The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.”

Years Running Player Percent Hundred Stealing Hitting

Author:Sparky Anderson

“Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.”

Years Law Numbers Percent Weight Airplane Crash Electronics Takeoff Airplane Crashes

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever change the administration requests, minus 4-percent tax.”

Years Law Three Given Numbers Amount Taxes Percent Congress Administration Appropriate Plus Funding Request Approved Minus

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.”

Thinking Years Today Next Interest Company Percent Rate London Investors Devoted Borrowed Pilgrim Interest Rate Repaying

Author:L. M. Boyd

“I can't remember ever being really bored. I find life very interesting, actually. I think some other musicians are always looking for something to give them an idea, but I find I have to reject 90 percent of my ideas because they don't live up to some self-imposed standard. That's also why I don't make a record once a year. I throw so many things out, and I have to have something to say.”

Thinking Giving Years I Can Ideas Self Remember Interesting Records Musician Standards Percent Bored Rejects Being Real Very Interesting

Author:Tom Verlaine

“Here we go again. Pandering to the .3 percent of the American population that consider themselves transgender. Now I get to explain this to my 8-year-old, if I just wanted to watch a nice family show with some nice music.”

Ifs Years Shows Wanted Watches Nice Percent Population Transgender Some Nice Nice Family Here We Go Again

Author:Gretchen Carlson

“It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero inflation or pays no income tax during years of 5 percent inflation. Either way, she is 'taxed' in a manner that leaves her no real income whatsoever. Any money she spends comes right out of capital. She would find outrageous a 100 percent income tax but doesn't seem to notice that 5 percent inflation is the economic equivalent.”

Way Years Real Seems Interest Differences Pay Economic Periods Taxes Percent Accounts Income Saving Zero Inflation Savings Outrageous Widows Income Tax

Author:Warren Buffett

“Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.”

Trying Years Kind Would Be Used Television Grew Grew Up Percent Nine Zone Australia Twilight Mum Twists Nine Years Hitchcock Twilight Zone

Author:Jacki Weaver

“Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.”

Writing Years Sometimes Song Percent Extras

Author:Skrillex

“In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.”

Years Book Age Past Technology Students College Conversation Empathy Percent Arguing Vulnerable Digital Decline Digital Age College Students Markers

Author:Judy Woodruff

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