#percent

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. ↗

— John Corigliano

#eighty #gravitate #percent #pieces #somewhere

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#become #citizen #citizens #citizenship #criterion

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#down #me #percent #sitting #working

Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

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At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#american #beginning #had #homes #only

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society. ↗

— Bill Gates

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I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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