#percent

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world. ↗

— George Saunders

#awake #aware #come #i #just

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat. ↗

— Jim Saxton

#act #critical #drastic #eliminate #endangered

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#billion #colombia #control #cultivation #distribution

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#also #branch #built #cost #dependent

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#authority #behave #how #i #need

And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996. ↗

— Don Shula

#averaging #best #end #i #percentage

We still have a very good core following, and the shows have been almost one hundred percent sold out. ↗

— Josh Silver

#been #core #following #good #hundred

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#hero #percent #right #time #up

In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#comes #credit #hours #income #increase

I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#after #been #country #family #folks