Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
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Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
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I always train 100 percent.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
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I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.
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One percent doubt is zero percent faith.
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Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.
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Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.
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Only about 25 percent of our participants actively ski.
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He says the best way out is always through. And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through.
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My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best...my very best, I set you free
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I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.
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We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
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You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
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There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.
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You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.
