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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein

Nature, Revealed

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama

Working, Last, Economy

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

Baseball, Half, Physical

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life, Happiness, Decision

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Future, Forget, Past

Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'
Marilyn Monroe

Someone, Give, Said

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Time, Treat, Ninety

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.
Charlie Sheen

Success, Winning, Addicted

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver

Excuses, Making, Failures

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen

Success, Eighty, Showing

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby

Father, Him, American

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
Lou Holtz

Care, Problems, Tell

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.
Mitt Romney

Said, Around, Here

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.
Barack Obama

Health, Care, Important

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R. D. Laing

Life, Disease, Mortality

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou Holtz

Life, Happens, Ten

Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

Baseball, Half, Physical

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.
Mitt Romney

Government, Free, Become

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Barack Obama

Education, Food, Medical

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Mind, Long, Fact

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin

Country, Two, Honest

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
Warren Buffett

Mean, Country, Needs

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger

Bad, Give, Reputation

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
Sylvia Earle

Time, Good, Pretty

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Charles R. Swindoll

Life, Live, Words

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.
Mitt Romney

Government, Turn, Economy

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas A. Edison

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
Warren Buffett

Truth, War, Talk

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