#percent

The accumulation of birthdays is the leading cause of death in the United States and other large land masses. Now while that may not be 100% accurate, it is at least 88% accurate. Actually, the last sentence itself might not have been 100% accurate, but I’m 88% sure it was. Maybe I should just brush up on fractions and percentages before making statements that are liable to hurt the funeral industry, because if birthdays aren’t killing people then it’s bad for the mortality business. And if you can’t trust somebody to die, then you can’t trust somebody. But I’m somebody you can trust. I’m at least 88% trustworthy, at least 88% of the time. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#accurate #birthday #death #die #fractions

Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and when necessary fight back. Get down off the fence and lend a hand, grab a-hold, be a citizen - not a subject. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#ninety-nine-percent #ows #power #society #freedom

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#class-warfare #economics #economics-greed #economics-money #inequality

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#bat #favor #fellow #fretting #got

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#coming #does #east #frustration #highest

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. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#actually #american #american writers #areas #call

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. ↗

— Fred Allen

#advertising #advertising agency #agency #commission #confusion

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ↗

— Woody Allen

#percent #seventy #showing #showing up #success

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#below #degrees #egypt #half #income

There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#around #being #believe #businesses #certain