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“We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.”

Years Known Cases Effects Percent Cures Remarkable Placebo Placebo Effect

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“"The Doula" was and is a very, very special episode to me because I think it's very funny and very weird and it also is 100 percent based on my life, in that I fainted three times during Sex Ed in real life the three different years.”

Thinking Years Different Real Three Sex Special Percent Real Life Episodes Three Times Doulas

Author:John Mulaney

“I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.”

Years States Percent Israel Secretary Senators

Author:John F. Kerry

“Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff [in Mother Jones], as part of ramping up daily operations that have resulted in huge gains in audience, a slew of awards, new multimedia endeavors, and of course scoops like the 47 percent.”

Years Past Mother Courses Audience Huge Percent Gains Operations Endeavor Awards Staff Editorials Multimedia

Author:Clara Jeffery

“I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Years Understanding Rooms Talking Speech Standards Percent Ideals Agree Majority Meetings Idiot Bells Curves Naive Deviation

Author:Simon Sinek

“President Obama's Justice Department won less than half of its total cases before the Supreme Court, which is the lowest presidential win rate since Harry Truman. Average historically for the last 50 years is about 70 percent.”

Years Lasts Winning President Justice Half Cases Percent Court Rate Average Supreme Presidential Department President Obama Lowest Supreme Court Truman Harry Truman

Author:Ted Cruz

“We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities might well be gone.”

Ifs Years Wells Stills Might Opportunity Waiting Half Gone Percent Sharks Reefs Coral Reefs

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Almost 40% of all young adults are living with their parents. This is a 75-year high in America. Forty percent of young adults are living with their parents. I see stuff like this, and I think it's a good thing I didn't become a parent, because if that were happening to me, you wouldn't want to be my kid.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Kids America Young Stuff Parent Happenings Percent Adults Good Things Young Adult Forty

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“When you are incubating new ideas, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is very good advice. But when you are seeking to transform your enterprise's portfolio by scaling a fledgling business to material size - say ten percent of total enterprise revenue - then it is imperative that you make that the singular focus of everyone in the enterprise for the two to three year period it is likely to require to reach its tipping point. Expecting to do two such scaling efforts in parallel is simply folly, yet that is what the "eggs/basket" idea is often used to justify.”

“We [African-Americans] are nearly half of all of the new cases of HIV every year, but we only represent 13 percent of the [U.S.] population. So, this is something that's literally bombarding our community, non-stop. We're such a small part of the nation [and] those numbers are alarming. We're putting ourselves in danger, we don't talk about getting tested and we don't talk about knowing [your status].”

Years Nations Community Numbers Half Cases Knowing Danger Percent Population African American Tested Hiv Our Community Small Parts Non Stop

Author:Jay Ellis

“Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president.”

Years President Car Percent Trans Bandits

Author:Burt Reynolds

“For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder, but since then most income growth has occurred among the top quintile. And among that group, most of the income growth has occurred among the top 5 percent. The pattern repeats itself all the way up. Most of the growth among the top 5 percent has been among the top 1 percent, and most of the growth among that group has been among the top one-tenth of one percent.”

People Way Years Has Beens Three Growth Groups Grew Percent Patterns Decades Income Repeats Ladders Up And Down Wwii

Author:Robert H. Frank

“Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Art Form Actors Given Acting Roles Lucky Majors Percent Window Profession Crafts Awards Broadway Percentages Academy Unemployed Nominations Academy Awards

Author:Viola Davis

“Taiwan's development in the past 20 years in high tech is almost 100 percent related to Silicon Valley.”

Years Past Development Percent Related Valleys Silicon Silicon Valley Taiwan

Author:Stan Shih

“Palestinians want a state of their own. They want to live in freedom. They want to get rid of the terrible misery in which they are living. They are ready after fifty years to accept a state of their own in 22 percent of what used to be the country of Palestine. I think it is the height of stupidity on our part if we don't grasp this opportunity.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Country States Used Opportunity Accepting Ready Terrible Percent Misery Stupidity Used To Be Height Fifty Palestinian Palestine

Author:Uri Avnery

“The American people are beginning to see the Republicans' willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent. It's rubbing the American people the wrong way. One-party rule is not good.”

People Way Want Years Party Steps Republican Percent Minorities Willingness Wrong Way

Author:Barbara Boxer

“A lot of what is done by the climate lobby is anti-science. But there is some science behind it. Like, there are greenhouse gases, and they do contribute to warming. But if you look at the last, say, 160 years, the first 80 of that period, they went up about four-tenths of a degree. And now, the second 80 that CO2 has increased by, what, 30 percent or something, it's gone up five-tenths of a degree. And there's been in the last 30 or 40 years, there's been no real increase in storms or bad weather.”

Ifs Years Firsts Looks Real Done Lasts Behinds Gone Five Four Periods Degrees Percent Increase Climate Storm Weather Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Co2 Bad Weather

Author:Charles Koch

“It's not by coincidence that a lot of protesters against the new presidency in America and in front of the Trump Tower, even in London... the protesters were 90 percent women. The image of the woman and the problem of the woman still exists. Not exactly in the same terms as 200 hundred years ago, but we still have the problem here.”

Years Stills Problem America Term Fronts Trump Percent Hundred Years Ago London Towers Coincidence Presidency

Author:Claude-Michel Schonberg

“Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.”

Years Children Country Age Past Mother Fall Growth Born Five Violence Risk Crime Disease Percent Adults Increase Primaries Wages Literacy Spurs Decrease Likelihood Later In Life Primary Education

Author:Shakira

“The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of poor has declined by 24 percent in those 15 years [1990-2005].”

Years Stories Wish Poor Numbers Media Percent Elites

Author:Thomas Pogge

“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.”

Years Humans Wells Has Beens Today Humanity Culture Pleasure Poverty Failing Cost Standards Percent Hundred Years Ago Well Being Our Time Severe Could Have Been Standards Of Living Affluent

Author:Thomas Pogge

“Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading.”

Years Has Beens Lasts America Percent Built Ugly Brutal Depressing Eighty Unhealthy Degrading

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.”

Years Made Book Ten Six Percent Hundred Checks Grades Quarters Classroom Fourth Bombing Hiroshima Fourth Grade

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.”

Years Ends Five Alive Percent Patient Treated Five Years

Author:Michael Landon

“I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.”

Ifs Years School Careers Mom Percent Work Out My Mom

Author:Queen Latifah

“I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.”

Years Wanted Voice Perfect Ready Six Singing Percent Presses Studios Producers

Author:Tyra Banks

“Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.”

Years Two Self Body Order Five Week Months Six Percent Skins Your Body Stomach Chemicals Atoms Replaced Liver Two Months Replacements Metabolism Non Stop Signs Of Life

Book:What is Life?

Source: What is Life?

“Over 13 percent of women in college have reported being a victim of stalking during the school year, and one out of every five college women has reported being sexually assaulted. It is simple to talk about statistics. It is more difficult to remember that each number is a victim and represents a daughter, a sister or a friend.”

Years School Remember Mother Difficult Simple Numbers Five College Percent Daughter Victim Statistics Sexually Stalking School Years

Author:Gwen Moore

“Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.”

Years Mind Bigs Would Be Design Percent Billions Improvement Planes Efficiency Jet Lame Vertical Boeing

Author:Elon Musk

“Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.”

Years Humans Body Human Beings Mets Percent Ears Fats Accents Gifted Justin Body Fat

Author:Mike Myers

“Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.”

Years Heart Shows Differences Study Risk Huge Disease Percent Add Seven Average Meat Diets Pounds Vegetarian Lighters Heart Disease Vegetarian Diet

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.”

Years Three Next Decision Months Research Percent Alcohol Teenage Unlimited Three Months

Author:Xavier Becerra

“Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.”

Years States House Levels Party Numbers Taken Five Position Higher Republican Percent Years Ago Twenties Protection Locals Candidates Five Years Senate Taxpayers Pledge Twenty Five

Author:Grover Norquist

“Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.”

“And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.”

Ifs Way Years Made Important Care Goal Term Levels Progress Huge Cost Percent Important Things Health Care Inflation Deficit Reducing Health Care Costs

Author:Barack Obama

“Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.”

Years Havens Percent Workers Productions Wages Inflation Risen Workforce Median

Author:Robert Reich

“Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.”

Ifs Years Shows Film Actors Successful Tvs Percent Profession Chosen Tv Shows Things You Love

Author:Christina Ricci

“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

“Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.”

People Ifs Knows Years Looks Said I Can Turns Three President Term Results Economy Week Months Percent Years Ago President Obama Three Years Unemployment Propositions

Author:Mitt Romney

“Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.”

Knows Years Kind Plans Economic Taxes Percent Consequence Including Debt Spending Boost National Debt Federal Spending

Author:Karl Rove

“And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.”

People Ifs Years Firsts Looks Said Stills Facts Problem Government Next Percent Solve Debt Next Year Pennies

Author:Marco Rubio

“In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.”

Years Hard Enough Government Choices Growth President Break Economic Limits Percent Clean Size Spending Economic Growth Gdp Size Of Government Federal Spending

Author:Paul Ryan

“Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.”

Years Two Running Kids Used Growing Up Four Growing Gay Percent My Friends Hanging Out Buddy Kentucky

Author:Hal Sparks

“Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.”

Years Believe Heart Children Facts Kids Age School Parent Risk Disease Percent Blame Factors Overweight Heart Disease Obese

Author:Alison Sweeney

“In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.”

Years States Today Past Lost United Millions United States Source Percent Aging Nine Income Primaries Farms Farmers Elsewhere Farming Ranchers Primary Source Family Farms Farmers And Ranchers

Author:Tom Vilsack

“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

“We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.”

Years Believe Five Internet Computer Percent Phones Boxes British Access Consumers Five Years Mobile Mobile Phones Personal Computers

Author:Richard Branson

“If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.”

“I couldn't take much more of this. Being the object two men competed for wasn't as glamorous as it sounded in the movies. The two men who both wanted one hundred percent of my time weren't dashing, international playboys. They were undead and surprisingly immature, considering the youngest was just over a hundred years old.”

Men Years Two Wanted Objects Percent Hundred International My Time Considering Glamorous Immature Playboy Undead Dashing

Book:Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night

Source: Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night

“My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.”

Years Firsts Asks President Cutting Ten Approach Percent Come Up Spending Budgets Boards Agency Drilling

Author:Herman Cain