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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As long as you make your own decision and do thing because it feels good to you, there will always be people who agree and people who don’t.
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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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Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?"
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There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.
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I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
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You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.
