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1 " Where are you?" he asked. " I'm right here" she said. " I know, but it feels like one percent of you is somewhere else, where is that one percent?" he said. " I don't know....I think I'm always like that..." she answered. " I like that." " You do?" " Yes, because that way, I have to always look for the one percent to find it. "
2 " Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. "
― Thomas A. Edison
3 " A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work. "
― Ljupka Cvetanova , The New Land
4 " One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. " Another one percent will always be dishonest and always try to pick your lock and steal your television. And the rest will be honest as long as the conditions are right - but if they are tempted enough, they'll be dishonest too. Locks won't protect you from the thieves, who can get in your house if they really want to. They will only protect you from the mostly honest people who might be tempted to try your door if it had no lock" . "
5 " Lies can be expensive to maintain, Alexa. And I’m sure we haven’t seen one percent of the price that the lies in this case ultimately will exact. "
― Theodore Jerome Cohen , House of Cards: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Martelli NYPD, #2)
6 " Religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, however, animal activists ask people to see things they can prove. When Christian animal and environmental activists finally demand that their church be better stewards over the world, we will see change. Until then, one percent of sermons will teach parishioners about the importance of being stewards over our animals in a year. Mega churches and corporate religious empires will continue to own stock in companies that pollute our earth and exploit our animals. Ignorance and hypocrisy will continue to corrupt the pureness of the Gospel. From here, we will not be truly “saved” because we choose not to save ourselves. "
― Shannon L. Alder
7 " Life is one percent what happens to you, and ninety-nine percent how you respond to it. "
― , Essential Ayurveda: What It Is and What It Can Do for You
8 " the Reagan years " produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history....The income of families in the bottom decile fell by 10.4 percent...while the income of those in the top one percent rose by 87.1 percent." Chain Reaction, 23 "
9 " So start with the waking state. When you are hungry eat, but always remember that it is the body that is hungry, not you. If you hurt your leg, wash and clean the wound, apply medication, but always remember that it is the body that is hurt, not you. This much remembrance – and you will find that ninety-nine percent of the pain has vanished. This slight knowledge, this little awareness removes so much of your suffering. One percent is bound to remain because the knowledge is not total. When knowledge becomes total all of the suffering disappears.Buddha said that an awakened person is beyond suffering. You can cut off the limbs of such a person, you can throw him in the fire, you can kill him, but you cannot make him suffer, because he stands apart from all that is happening around him. "
― Osho , Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
10 " The minority (the considered one percent of the one percent of the one percent of the one percent of humanity…) that has “worked hard” its way to obscene riches and power depriving human beings of vital necessities like water and food is a part of us, not an alien enemy.They are not the devil, nor satan.Just men (like us)Men who are taught what they know (like us)What to think (like us)Men who are lied to (like us)Manipulated (like us)Processed (like us)Indoctrinated (…. ..) "
― Haroutioun Bochnakian , The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
11 " If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. "
― Susan Cain , Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
12 " Funny isn't it, that such a large percentage of people believe in the possibility of ghosts yet scoff at stories about then; whereas less than a fifth of one percent think there actually may be vampires, yet glamorize and romanticize them into millions of dollar of sales. Perhaps the real irony is that the thought of ghosts is just a little too close to people’s comfort level. "
― D.L. Koontz , Crossing Into The Mystic (The Crossings Trilogy, #1)
13 " We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. "
14 " And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I've done it. "
15 " Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. "
