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• I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.

  Huey Long

  Men, Hundred, I Can

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• Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to
  I just found out my mom does more dope than I do

  Eminem

  Mom, Dope, Doe

  Song: hi my name is

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• Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.353, Yale University Press

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• In most cases, I don't know how much, I cannot say if it's ninety nine percent or eighty percent, but the problem with incestuous relationships is that they often come from frustration. And from need of power.

  Gaspar Noe

  Frustration, Needs, Problem

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Generosity, World, Safe

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27

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• I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Believe, Rocks

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.290, Library of Alexandria

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

  Harold Geneen

  Negative, Surprise, Percent

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• There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Law, Looks

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• I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.

  Neal Stephenson

  Christian, Atheist, Intelligent

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.69, Spectra

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• Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

  Booth Tarkington

  People, Gossip, Doe

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2177, eBookIt.com

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• Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Life, Mean, Heart

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Mar 20, 2014

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• We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

  George Washington Carver

  Art, Home, Rainy Day

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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, Community, Black

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• Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

  Gene Ween

  Band, Stink, Cents

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• Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

  Alexander Smith

  Nature, Funeral, Picnics

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.102, tredition

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• We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Atheist, Presidential

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• There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

  Bill Shoemaker

  Winning, Way, Firsts

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• Success is ninety-nine percent failure.

  Soichiro Honda

  Inspirational, Percent, Nine

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• Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will start feeling sick, dizzy, something going berserk in your mind. You cannot go on looking at Picasso's painting long enough. You would like to get away, because the painting has not come from a silent being. It has come from a chaos. It is a by product of a nightmare. But ninety-nine percent art belongs to that category.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, Sick

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• Love can have the quality of the devil - that`s how it is there in the world, ninety-nine percent. Love can have the quality of God, and unless you make your love divine, it is not going to give you any contentment.

  Rajneesh

  Giving, Contentment, Quality

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• Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.

  William John Locke

  Sex, Soul, Analysis

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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, Important

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

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• There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Virtue, Hundred

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

  Tim Ferriss

  Believe, Learning, People

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