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• I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine... ninety-five... ninety-two... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?

  Francesca Lia Block

  Cake, Two, Doe

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• Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

  Neil Gaiman

  Doe, Never Trust, Demon

  "Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, Book 1)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, January – August 1989.

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• Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Average, Cities

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.41, Hamilton Books

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• Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen

  Cecil Rhodes

  Men, Hundred, Asks

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• Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story.

  T.C. Boyle

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.

  Jonathan Tucker

  Sacrifice, Water, Rejection

  "Star of Parenthood and Kingdom Jonathan Tucker: Giving Back". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.

  Casey Neistat

  Son, Percent, Nine

  Source: www.tvequals.com

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• Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the population. This means that they've gone down especially for Blacks and Hispanics and other blue-collar workers. Their net worth has actually turned negative, and they don't have enough money to get by.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, Blue, Twenties

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

  Anita Roddick

  Believe, Way, Ethical

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• Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Running, Errors, Light

  "The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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• I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.

  Janice Galloway

  Growing Up, Numbers, Two

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• Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in the world. They think that they will wear expensive clothes, makes loads of money, travel a lot and have a rock star for a boyfriend. This never interested me. I didn't want anyone to scream out my name. I wanted to make art, to create an image with a photographer. And yes, I wanted to get out of Clinton, Mississippi - a small town that was so closed-minded you can't even imagine.

  Crystal Renn

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• "It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.

  Simon Rich

  Love, Men, Injustice

  Simon Rich (2013). “The Last Girlfriend on Earth”, p.23, Profile Books

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• Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!

  John C. Maxwell

  Passion, Giving, Advantage

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• Holy Week challenges us to step outside ourselves so as to attend to the needs of others: those who long for a sympathetic ear, those in need of comfort or help. We should not simply remain in our own secure world, that of the ninety-nine sheep who never strayed from the fold, but we should go out, with Christ, in search of the one lost sheep, however far it may have wandered.

  Pope Francis

  Sheep, Long, Challenges

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• Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Giants, Might

  R. A. Torrey (2015). “D. L. Moody - Why God Used”, p.9, Editora Dracaena

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• Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.

  William James

  Morning, Lying, Night

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

  E. J. Gold

  Self, Percent, Nine

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• It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.

  Wendell Phillips

  Independent, Thinking, Behind You

  Wendell Phillips (1969). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Some things, you just like what you like and you stick to it. Other things, you like what you like, but the things that come with celebrity or success comes more options. There's was nine, all of the sudden there's ninety-nine things to say "yes" to, which you didn't have the option to say "yes" to yesterday.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Yesterday, Sticks, Things You Like

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

  Kalki Krishnamurthy

  Killing, Should, Tigers

  "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("The Tiger King"), 1999.

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• But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Coins, Lost

  Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.68, Charisma Media

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• To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

  Sandor Katz

  War, Bacteria, Killing

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• Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Listening, Singing, Hearing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

  Brian Blessed

  Winning, Making Money, Cents

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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