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Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites. Michael Pollan
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. Thomas Jefferson
Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate. Tom Clancy
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Cooking is eighty percent confidence, a skill best acquired..."
Cooking is eighty percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. Barbara Kingsolver
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong. Michael Crichton
Brian Tracy quote: "Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in..."
Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy! Brian Tracy
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation. Michael Pollan
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired..."
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. Barbara Kingsolver
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. H. L. Mencken
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law. Robert A. Heinlein
When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say. Mindy Kaling
The things you're looking for...are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see ninety-nine percent of them is in a book. Ray Bradbury
There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all. Nora Ephron
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else. J. K. Rowling
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left. Yogi Berra

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