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• Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

  Harold Geneen

  Ninety Nine, Negative, Surprise

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• The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

  Charles Kettering

  Eye, Ideas, Judgement

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• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

  Chris Evert

  Wrestling, Games, Tennis

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• The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.

  Bill Cosby

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

  Julian Fellowes

  Eight, Cameras, Actors

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• I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you lose to gain.

  Theophilus London

  Years, Different, Gains

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• Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Pain, Winter

  "The Man Who Loved Children".

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• In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Women, Years, Mind

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• You are getting too old for this. A man is as old as he feels, woman! And how old do you feel? About ninety.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Feels

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 15, 1985.

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• The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Lying, Reality, Justice

  "Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2009.

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• Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view.

  Kurt Gödel

  Men, Views, Principles

  "Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel". Book by John W. Dawson Jr., 1997.

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• All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of those only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in existence before the adoption of the standard text, and out of which it was created.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Adoption, Greek, Six

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 39, 1949.

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• The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mistake, Men, Talking

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• It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Men, Ninety Nine

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7082, Delphi Classics

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• A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Wisdom, Country, People

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• Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Ninety Nine, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.19, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Cents, My Time, Five

  "Surfing the Universe" by Benjamin Wallace-Wells, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.

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• Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field of view and everything that is out of our field of view. The shutter slices time, eliminating all moments before and after it opens and closes. Three dimensions are reduced to two. And in some cases color is removed. How can we call these kinds of artifacts unaltered?

  John Paul Caponigro

  Photography, Views, Color

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• Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

  David Sanborn

  Growing Up, Ninety Nine, Community

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• As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the opposite sex, over 40 percent of the girls saw advantages to being male; they would have better jobs, higher incomes, and more respect. Ninety-five percent of the boys saw no advantage to being female, and a substantial number thought suicide would be preferable.”

  Deborah Rhode

  Girl, Suicide, Sex

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• Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-
  nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Reality, Smell, Ninety Nine

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Science, Eight

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• Ninety percent of our police are fighting terrorists, so we don't have enough oriented towards their key duty, which is enforcement of the law. But these are precisely the inheritance that we want to overcome. Particularly the mark for success for us would be that a woman can not only walk in the streets of every major city, but can go from one province to another without any hindrance.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Fighting, Keys, Law

  "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.

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• If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.

  Ralph Marston

  Success, Running, Matter

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• I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Mother, Father, Lost

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