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Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.
Chris Van Allsburg
Christmas
Culture
Old
Our
Percentage
Only
Fact
Mythic
True
True Believers
Most
Years
Truly
Eight
Pity
Santa
Figure
Large
Population
Large Percentage
Believed
Believers
Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.
Cliff Stearns
Home
Crime
College
Ownership
Crime Rate
Rate
Percentage
Rates
Higher
Since
Household
Greater
Unemployment
American
Graduating
Lower
Home Ownership
Income
Median
Violent
Whether you have a small team or a large team, you'll always have a percentage of people telling you to do the opposite of what you think you should be doing. Then you'll have a percentage of people telling you to do the opposite of what they're saying. It's a constant sea of doubtful voices. You have to navigate through that.
Cory Barlog
Saying
You
People
Think
Telling
Constant
Percentage
Small
Voices
Through
Always
Doing
Opposite
Whether
Then
Should
Doubtful
Sea
Team
Large
Navigate
There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
Dan Harmon
Women
Writing
Genius
Job
Looking
Out
Percentage
Both
Same
Happening
Scripts
Less
It's imperative to save a few chips whenever possible when playing small-ball poker. You never want to risk a high percentage of your chips unless you're dealt a monster hand.
Daniel Negreanu
You
Few
Monster
Unless
Possible
High
High Percentage
Percentage
Risk
Imperative
Never
Poker
Dealt
Hand
Whenever
Want
Chips
Your
Playing
Save
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
Dave Matthews
Better
Country
White
Gave
Percentage
Small
Better Things
South
South African
African
Being
Population
Enjoyed
Things
People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.
David Blaine
People
Mind
Our
Possible
Percentage
Only
Potential
Doing
Tap
Brains
Begun
Certain
Use
Even
Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.
David Coverdale
Good
Women
Stage
Those
Significant
Would
Pretty
Pretty Good
Percentage
More
Voices
Most
Because
Spot
Audience
Rock
Am
Rock Bands
Were
Hear
Very
Than
Bands
Get
Where
As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.
Dean Kamen
Happy
People
Will
Thought
Fighting
Resources
Total
Per
Percentage
Smaller
Towards
Over
Continue
Move
Gold
Little
Us
Planet
Less
Billion
Each
Each One
Ever
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
Best
Total
Percentage
Winning
Wins
Proud
Years
End
Up
Very
Any
Then
Regular
Regular Season
Team
Professional
Season
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
Ed Gillespie
Today
History
Nation
Own
Our
Percentage
Highest
Than
American
African
African Americans
Homes
Ever
Despite allegations by liberal advocacy groups that voter suppression tactics by the right hindered minority voting, blacks represented 13 percent of the electorate in 2012, a percentage about equivalent with 2008.
Elizabeth Flock
Voting
Minority
Liberal
Despite
About
Allegations
Percent
Blacks
Percentage
Tactics
Voter
Suppression
Advocacy
Equivalent
Electorate
Groups
Right
In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Life
Balance
Science
Women
Problem
Will
Men
Men And Women
Computer Science
Engineering
Find
Percentage
Small
Computer
Between
Major
Major Problem
Sciences
Very
Reasonable
Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.
Gail Collins
God
Health
Good
Great
You
People
Job
Country
Rich
Luck
Good Luck
Percentage
Mentally
Great Place
Highest
Terrible
Health Insurance
Without
Insurance
Got
Texas
God Help
Get
Getting
Place
Poor
Workers
Help
Ill
Injured
Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
Gary Bettman
Nature
Game
Relatively
Percentage
Small
Takes
Betting
Because
Scoring
Very
Hockey
Place
Even
Baseball
If firms were made to hire according to quotas, it might optimize the percentage of women in the industry, but that doesn't necessarily translate into more quality products for the customer.
Gillian Tans
Quality
Women
Made
Percentage
More
Industry
Hire
Were
According
Optimize
Customer
Might
Translate
Products
Necessarily
We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.
Grover Norquist
Government
People
Free
Half
Citizens
Percentage
More
Over
Reduce
Years
Depending
Size
Want
Autonomy
Next
Number
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.
Grover Norquist
Government
Focus
Deficit
Spending
Total
Percentage
Take
Economy
Reduce
Government Spending
Left
Wants
Us
Should
Away
As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive.
Grover Norquist
Government
Long
Spend
Spending
Ways
Focused
Solutions
Cost
Percentage
Only
Smaller
Economy
Make
Policies
Democrats
Becomes
Pro-Growth
Expensive
Less
Therefore
Grow
Two
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.
Grover Norquist
Government
Spending
Total
Percentage
Economy
Reduce
Government Spending
Should
Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc.
Guy Pearce
Time
Character
You
Director
Every
Every Time
Say
Location
Percentage
Yes
Story
Etc
Certain
Your
Film
It is in their inherent moral components that recent Western strategies may be deficient. What percentage of the populations in countries engaged in the 14-year effort in Afghanistan could even name the three main Taliban groups with whom their soldiers have been engaged?
H. R. McMaster
Three
Deficient
Soldiers
Moral
Components
Percentage
Could
Main
Countries
Name
Taliban
Been
Western
Effort
May
Afghanistan
Engaged
Inherent
Strategies
Even
Groups
Whom
Recent
The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.
H. R. McMaster
Failure
Risks
Fight
Communicate
Strategy
Resources
Those
Worthy
Percentage
Only
Small
Daughters
Sacrifices
Sons
Effectively
Efforts
May
Sustain
Explain
Stake
Sent
Derive
Who
Professed
Wars
Why
Among
Necessary
Recent
A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3 percent more capital. It's not surprising then, that average OECD corporate tax rates have trended steadily downward.
Henry Paulson
Country
Corporate
Steadily
Percent
Rate
Percentage
Rates
More
Point
Study
Economists
Attracts
Another
Surprising
Than
Tax
Estimated
Tax Rate
Tax Rates
Capital
Average
Then
Lower
Downward
Treasury
I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.
Heywood Broun
Words
Proletarian
See
Some
Percentage
Maiden
Between
Cheek
Blush
Literature
Which
Connection
Necessary
Bring
Set
I favor a system where students in publicly funded institutions make a commitment: if they do well in the private sector, they will revert a certain percentage of their income to the education sector; and if they devote some years to public service, their debt will be forgiven.
Howard Gardner
Education
Service
Commitment
Will
Favor
Sector
System
Some
Percentage
Students
Institutions
Devote
Well
Make
Private
Years
Revert
Private Sector
Debt
Forgiven
Where
Public
Certain
Public Service
Income
Publicly
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