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The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
Norman Borlaug
Tags: Fear People More
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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.


Samuel Goldwyn
Tags: Get Take Percent
I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.
Jesse Ball
Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.
Josette Sheeran
Tags: War Food People
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
William Petersen
Tags: About Up Love
In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it.
Novak Djokovic
Tags: People Me Like
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby
Tags: Chance Being He
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.
Nicole Krauss
Tags: Time Much Used
The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg
Tags: Time People About
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One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.


Ruth Pitter
Tags: Right Road Heaven
We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes - which is, for 50 percent of the public, nothing; for another 25 percent, only a 10 percent increase; and for the remaining 25 percent, a 34 percent increase.
Gray Davis
Tags: You More Than
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
Loren Eiseley
Tags: Time War Like
Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
Billy Sunday
Tags: You Your Will
If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.
Marc Faber
Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.
Claudia Christian
Tags: Good Play Part
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Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.


Harry Seidler
Tags: People About Were
There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.
Louis Prima
Tags: People Like Get
I mean, the country is deeply divided. There is 35 percent of the people who are Tea Partiers or more in some of those states. So it's probably going to be a difficult year, but there's nothing that I think anyone can do about it.
Brad Carson
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.


G. Willow Wilson
Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.
Zadie Smith