The runaway 100 percent effectiveness that's touted by proponents was nowhere to be seen.


Tom Jefferson

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Occupancy is 100 percent - I've never seen anything like this.
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Fred's 100 percent. He has been 100 percent for a while. We thought it was in our best interest to m...
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We've seen a stabilizing of the market. We're not seeing 80 or 100 percent increases.
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My priority is my family, absolutely, 100 percent.
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This was 100 percent the physician's mistake.
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Starting next year, 100 percent of our students, by 11th grade, will be exposed to algebraic content...
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Now is not the time to be 100 percent.
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(Almost) no team is going to be 100 percent compatible. Our team was different, though.
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The increased production being touted by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait is not going to be enough to dent t...
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I'm pushing to be back [for outdoor], but if I'm not 100 percent then I'm not going to because I'd r...
GAYLE HUNTER
Sounds French, it is known to be British, but in fact it is 100 percent owned by McDonald's.
SIMON ANHOLT
All the way to state. It's been the goal since we lost last year. I'll probably be 100 percent by th...
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To me, anybody who plays this game who's not injured can give you 100 percent. Now, maybe your 100 p...
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Everything would be at 100 percent.
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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
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We expect the replacement rate to be at 75 percent in 2006 and at 100 percent in 2010.
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It'd be awfully hard for us to make 100 percent.
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I think we've seen him getting stronger and stronger and more confident in the fact his arm is 100 p...
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100 percent chance it would be appealed to the Montana Supreme Court.
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This continues to be a joint investigation by a large number of state, local and federal law enforce...
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Even though it's better to die Once.... You still choose a path knowing you'll be KILLED a 100 times...
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I'm feeling much better, ... I was able to go at it full-speed and should be 100 percent for the tou...
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Noah looked great. I think he's 100 percent now. He might be 110 percent.
FRED BENNETT
We are at 100 percent service, although the utility companies aren't quite at 100 percent generation...
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When he comes to the club and starts a new job he gives 100 percent and expects 100 percent back,
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The reply I got was 100 percent positive. I was told that if you've got her, you'd be a fool not to ...
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We have been open about saying it was nowhere near 22 percent. We do.
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We had 100 percent devastation down here, and I haven't seen an adjuster yet. We need some relief fo...
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We can therefore map which products are going to be more successful in which channels. We're 100 per...
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I knew I wasn't exactly 100 percent, but all I could do was keep trying and working because the only...
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The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 p...
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He was one of hardest-working students we had. He always gave 100 percent at every single practice a...
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TONY RASMUS
We're a 100 percent convinced by his work. There's no need to wait until the end of the season.
RUDI ASSAUER
The whole team showed up. Everybody was focused, they all played 100 percent.
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We like to be able to control the distribution of 100 percent of our product 100 percent of the time...
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With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.
MAGNUS LARSSON
We'll still be almost 100 percent leased when we're done.
ROGER BROWN
It's impressive that Kraft was able to do two 100 percent whole-grain cookies.
MARGO WOOTAN
I feel good, but I don't think I'll be 100 percent to play.
ARAMIS RAMIREZ
We can't be 100 percent sure, but it appears to be a very unique proposition.
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The technology does not exist to accomplish what proponents want, ... If I had a magic wand, I would...
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This is some of the debts of some of the world's poorest countries. And we have been campaigning for...
STEPHEN RAND
My leg is 100 percent now. It was a long road back.
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If you've paid at least 90 percent of your current tax liability by April 15 or 100 percent of the p...
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JACKIE SOBAS
I need to apologize to Kurt. I got into him. That was 100 percent my fault.
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I have seen consumer focus groups where people are quite confused when shown a very popular drink, a...
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Mr. Williams was having a good time with a woman who was 100 percent consenting.
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Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the...
SANDRA LEE
In the future, the cars you see from Toyota will be 100 percent hybrid.
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He is even going to be better when he is at 100 percent. As long as he said he was feeling good, he ...
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I don't think it'll ever be 100 percent, but I've learned to take it day by day and to live with it....
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Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with wh...
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It's an updated, modernized engraving. It's Jefferson as you've never seen him before.
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He won't be 100 percent, but at least he will be in the race. He will be able to race and he could h...
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I need a sword first," I said. "People here keep taking mine.
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You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent...
ED MACAULEY
The ankle feels fine. It's not 100 percent, so I'm not going to be able to go tonight.
LEBRON JAMES
It's still 100 percent my store. I will be the creative force behind the store.
IVEN KELLEY
100 percent of the aviation screening mandates.
JAMES LOY
He'll play this week. He's not 100 percent, but 90 percent of Brian is better than most people at 10...
BRAD CLANTON
We are 100 percent full.
AGATHA BONIFACE
It's not 100 percent yet.
DANIEL FELLS
I'm healthy. I'm 100 percent.
DARREN HOWARD
I always train 100 percent.
CANELO ALVAREZ
It is 100 percent contained.
JULENA CAMPBELL
I support those 100 percent.
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He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He was...
KEN ASHLOCK
Whether he was pushing a broom or teaching a class, he gave 100 percent.
ROBERTA BARTHOLDI
Pat was an awesome guy. He always gave 100 percent in everything he did.
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How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where...
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We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent ...
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The statement opened up the possibility that the interest rate going to 4 percent isn't 100 percent ...
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GERMANY KENT
Our view is the plans should be fully funded and that means 100 percent funded.
ANN COMBS
I'm not a 100 percent satisfied, but let's say 98 percent,
TOM BOONEN
Oh, she was my baby. There ain't no doubt about that. She was Daddy's baby 100 percent.
MICHAEL SLAUGHTER
I would sure encourage them to [hold a reunion]. I'll be there without hesitation. 100 percent.
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The good news is lawyers were seen as helpful to our society by 82 percent of the population.
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The doctors cleared him. I am 100 percent confident, [team president] Isiah [Thomas] is 100 percent ...
JAMES DOLAN
I back (the high school project) 100 percent.
KAREN ALLEN
I'm a single mom -- 100 percent,
CAMRYN MANHEIM
I'm feeling terrific, 100 percent better.
DON HO
It's a 100-percent local deal.
CLANCY SPICER
He's changed his attitude 100 percent.
KRIS REINERT
In the spring, I'll be 100 percent. I've got three years. They will be a strong three years.
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That prevalence dropped to 26.4 percent at one year and remained stable. Not wanting to be seen undr...
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He's 100 percent now. He went to conditioning classes and you'd never know he was injured at all.
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Impact fees are not designed to recoup 100 percent.
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Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good gener...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbeliev...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's R...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nati...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of m...
THOMAS JEFFERSON