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We are being harmed because our government is not functioning at 100 percent.


Lois Perrin

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BRAD CLANTON I want to play but I don't want to play like that, not (being at) 100 percent.
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JAN CHOVANEC We are 100 percent full.
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BOB JOHANNESSEN We expect the replacement rate to be at 75 percent in 2006 and at 100 percent in 2010.
CARLOS MORALES My priority is my family, absolutely, 100 percent.
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BRAD BEVIS It's imperative to commit to always being your character 100 percent.
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CLAUDIA PECHSTEIN They are 100 percent factual and accurate, and we stand behind them.
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STEVE WARREN I'm not a 100 percent satisfied, but let's say 98 percent,
TOM BOONEN We can therefore map which products are going to be more successful in which channels. We're 100 per...
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DALAI LAMA XIV, DESMOND TUTU, DOUGLAS ABRAMS He's not 100 percent, but he's close.
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CATHY HAYNES I'm not 100 percent, ... but I'm pretty close.
ARMANDO BENITEZ It is 100 percent contained.
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LOIS PERRIN It's a law that's infringing on constitutional rights of nonresidents.
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LOIS PERRIN This law sends a message contrary to the aloha spirit.
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LOIS PERRIN It was enacted in the 1970s with the express purpose to ask people not to move to Hawaii to make thi...
LOIS PERRIN It was very likely, and to be done in short order.
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LOIS LOWRY I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most vale...
LOIS LOWRY Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity a...
LOIS CAPPS I don't know why I pick up other people's trash. I guess those of us who do have more respect for ou...
LOIS BROBST I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn'...
LOIS LOWRY I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place ...
LOIS LOWRY What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, ...
GEORGE LOIS I shoot just one moment at a time... These moments are beneath the threshold of perception.
LOIS GREENFIELD It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
LOIS LOWRY Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scient...
GEORGE LOIS I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There a...
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