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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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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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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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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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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If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.
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You will come to agree with me.
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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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Put your ego aside and play as a team.
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You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.
