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Source: The Book of Snobs

“We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.”

Growth Future Statistics Pollution Percentages Overpopulation Environmental Pollution Air Quality

Author:Gunter Grass

“Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.”

Certain Population Driving Drunk Substance Alcoholism Percentages Tobacco Drunk Driving

Author:Don Winslow

“What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, "tenth." For some people, that's extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.”

People Giving Should Mean Percent Uncomfortable Percentages Tithe Colonoscopy

Author:Andy Stanley

“Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.”

Views Conditions Regard Shoes Point Of View Selfish Percentages

Book:Some everyday folk and dawn

Source: Some everyday folk and dawn

“Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.”

Ideas Education Conscious Increase Relation Developing Unconscious Percentages

Author:Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“[Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won't work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.”

People Knows Advice Economics Medicine Brands Economist Flavor Percentages Patents Quacks

Author:Barbara Bergmann

“There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.”

Should Numbers Position Should Have Population Jew Percentages Large Numbers

Author:Otto Ohlendorf

“The first thing you notice about women in Hollywood, besides their low percentage of body fat, is how few are married. And the number of great-looking, successful single women without a social life is staggering. ... The most glaring misconception about Hollywood is that it is the romance capital of the world.”

World Firsts Body Romance Life Is Social Numbers Successful Married Lows Hollywood Fats Percentages Social Life Misconception Staggering Single Women Body Fat

Author:Lynda Obst

“American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?”

Ifs Made Would Be Running Today Interest Company Security Example Crisis Financial Ceo Loan Percentages Mortgage Alignment Financial Crisis Stanley American Business Citibank

Author:Aubrey McClendon

“I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system.”

Knows Know How Significant Hopeful Percentages Dissatisfied

Author:Michael Pollan

“We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.”

People Home Form Social Phones Entertainment Income Manage Plenty Cells Ladders Percentages Up And Down Cell Phone

Author:Michael Pollan

“The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.”

Art Stills Kids Culture Creation Painting Higher Singing Art Is Dancing Everyday Population Drawing Artistic Indian Dominant Percentages Indian Culture Dominant Culture

Author:Sherman Alexie

“They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.”

“I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.”

People May Christian Trouble Convinced Worldly Percentages

Author:Vance Havner

“There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.”

Film Actors Names Share Particular Tradition Very Good Percentages Kevin Beatty Directing Film

Author:Steven Van Zandt

“I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.”

Want Feels Ends Moments Dream Beautiful Guy Certain Fall Left Forget Alive Mystery Danger Intense Beautiful Things Percentages Forget It Let Down Jake Chinatown

Author:David Lynch

“Only a small percentage of novelists, painters, musicians, scientists, anywhere in the world, are talented. But there are many more in Hollywood than one would expect from looking movies.”

World Musician Hollywood Scientist Painter Novelists Percentages

Author:Hortense Powdermaker

“The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.”

Long Happens Certain Water Chance White Numbers Eating Tragedy Tables Faults Dinner Accidents Coffee Percentages Chances Are Lurking Jelly Dinner Table Snowy

Book:Etiquette Every Child Should Know

Source: Etiquette Every Child Should Know

“An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.”

Littles Facts Known Successful Entrepreneur Percentages Successful Entrepreneurs Dyslexic

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Names Nations Felt Animal Dog Civilization Treats Shame Prosperity Extremes Income Cruelty Illegal Human History Percentages Unprecedented Affordability

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.”

States Seems Film Support Weapons Prejudice England Rose Average British Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Viewers Percentages Pits Englishmen Mindless Kansas Barbecue Overused

Author:Emmett Tyrrell

“The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.”

Men Running Money Cry Benefits Built Fairs Dear Nonsense Percentages Railroads

Author:William Henry Vanderbilt

“It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.”

Education Honest Higher Lawyer Professors Percentages Competent Plumber

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“If two percent of all the films made in Hollywood are really artistically worthy - and I think it's a lot more than two percent - that's a pretty big percentage of things that will outlive their own generation.”

Ifs Thinking Made Two Bigs Film Generations Percent Hollywood Worthy Percentages

Author:Murray Horwitz

“Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.”

Growth Debt Tendencies Inflation Deficit Percentages Accompany Gdp Slow Growth

Author:Bill Gross

“It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.”

People Reality Sin Study Land Critical Percentages Brazil

Author:Paulo Freire

“My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.”

Mother Parent Company Teach Speech Victim Income Hospitals Strokes Percentages Therapists Single Parent

Author:Mona Simpson

“A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.”

Looks Made Bigs Woods Scales Horrible Construction Plastic Percentages

Author:Greg Lynn

“Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.”

Moral Nice Manners Percentages

Author:Tom Lehrer

“In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.”

Men Problem Balance Computer Majors Men And Women Reasonable Engineering Percentages Computer Science Major Problems

Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.”

Writing Jobs Genius Happenings Scripts Gender Percentages Writing Scripts

Author:Dan Harmon

“Many of my colleagues are blissfully unaware of the global percentage of people who cannot EVER go to a movie theater, let alone with an entire family. I do not want to make movies for the rich.”

People Want Rich Theater Colleagues Percentages Movie Theater

Author:Lexi Alexander

“Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.”

People Knows Long Hands Numbers Pay Half Taxes Burden Income Fewer Jobless Pulling Going To Work Percentages Hand In Hand Income Tax Wagons Tax Burden

Author:Fred Thompson

“There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.”

People Self Stories Able Fighting Acting Consciousness Battle Aspect Population Percentages Surreal Self Consciousness

Author:Tom Hanks

“The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.”

Men America Genius Workers Come Up Productions Enterprise Productive Percentages Benches

Author:William S. Knudsen

“The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.”

Believe Mean Pay Magic Stones Math Percentages Casinos Omen Numerology Amulets

Author:Frank Scoblete

“If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.”

People Ifs Want Passion Interest Profession Links Percentages

Author:Nalini Nadkarni

“New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.”

“The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.”

Knows Mean Winning Greater Groups Return Investing Active Investors Passive Percentages Brethren

Author:Warren Buffett

“Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.”

Whole Achieve Return Amount Cost Management Rate Investing Average Active Managers Fund Expenses Gross Percentages Disadvantages Transactions Index Funds Active Management

Author:Burton Malkiel

“While it is probably a poor idea to own actively managed funds in general, it is truly a terrible idea to own them in taxable accounts... taxes are a drag on performance of up to 4 percentage points each year... many index funds allow your capital gains to grow largely undisturbed until you sell... For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.”

Years Mean Ideas Grows Poor Terrible Taxes Gains Performances Accounts Sells Sorry Investing Fund Investors Drag Percentages Capital Gains Index Funds Indexing

Author:William J. Bernstein

“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.”

“The financial calculus that Charlie and I employ would never permit our trading a good night's sleep for a shot at a few extra percentage points of return. I've never believed in risking what my friends and family have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need.”

Needs Night Order Sleep Return Shots My Friends Investing Financial Pursue Extras Permit Family And Friends Trading Percentages Charlie Good Night Calculus

Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“The risk of an investment is described by both the probability and the potential amount of loss. The risk of an investment-the probability of an adverse outcome-is partly inherent in its very nature. A dollar spent on biotechnology research is a riskier investment than a dollar used to purchase utility equipment. The former has both a greater probability of loss and a greater percentage of the investment at stake.”

Used Loss Greater Risk Amount Research Dollars Investment Investing Former Outcomes Stakes Inherent Equipment Probability Percentages Utility Adverse Biotechnology

Author:Seth Klarman

“The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product both directly and indirectly.”

Doe Stills Seems Growth Four Fields Products Periods Computer Accounts Decades Significant Mature Slow Down Gross Percentages Slowing Intoxicated Galloping

Author:Fernando J. Corbato

“Look, first of all, the climate is changing. I don't think the science is clear what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted. And for the people to say the science is decided on, this is just really arrogant, to be honest with you, it's this intellectual arrogance that now you can't even have a conversation about it. The climate is changing, and we need to adapt to that reality.”

“I don't think the science is clear of what percentage is man-made and what percentage is natural. It's convoluted, for the people to say the science is decided on this is really arrogant, to be honest with you.”

People Thinking Men Made Science Natural Clear Honest Decided Being Honest Arrogant Percentages Convoluted

Author:Jeb Bush

“When you breast feed your child, that breast milk that nature starts us out on has almost the same percentage of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fat as butter. So nature clearly wanted us to have a high fat diet.”

Children Wanted Nature Our Children Fats Your Children Diets Breasts Milk Percentages Saturated

Author:Suzanne Somers

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