“A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
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Robert A. Heinlein557
American science fiction author 1907–1988Related quotes
Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker
As quoted in The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s (1975) by Axel Madsen
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.”
Jackie Mason (1931) American rabbi and comedian
Quoted in [Bill, Maxwell, In gloomy times, let's try to find a sense of humor, http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/07/Columns/In_gloomy_times__let_.shtml, 2002-07-07, 2008-10-04, St. Petersburg Times]
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Matsuo Bashō, Collected Haiku Theory, eds. T. Komiya & S. Yokozawa, Iwanami, 1951 (Unknown translator)
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“One percent intention, ninety nine percent desire.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2016, United Nations Address (September 2016)
Context: A world in which one percent of humanity controls as much wealth as the other 99 percent will never be stable. I understand that the gaps between rich and poor are not new, but just as the child in a slum today can see the skyscraper nearby, technology now allows any person with a smartphone to see how the most privileged among us live and the contrast between their own lives and others. Expectations rise, then, faster than governments can deliver, and a pervasive sense of injustice undermine people’s faith in the system. [... ] economies are more successful when we close the gap between rich and poor, and growth is broadly based. And that means respecting the rights of workers so they can organize into independent unions and earn a living wage. It means investing in our people -- their skills, their education, their capacity to take an idea and turn it into a business. It means strengthening the safety net that protects our people from hardship and allows them to take more risks -- to look for a new job, or start a new venture.