Albert Shanker Quotes
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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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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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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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I always train 100 percent.
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Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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We make songs like a factory and put them out.
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'Gansey's partying with his mother,' Ronan said. He smelled like beer. 'And Noah's fucking dead. But Parrish is here'
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
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There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive?The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks water from the springs of the bed.
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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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One percent doubt is zero percent faith.
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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
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Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.
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In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.
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Today it was win or lose. But my victory yesterday and the downhill globe boosted my confidence. My record in Cortina was also a liberation.
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What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.
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Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.
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We've got a lemon factory and we're turning out 80-85 percent lemons.
