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• Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, One Day, Five Senses

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Cherry Orchard”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.

  Guillermo Gonzalez

  Moon, Swings, Darkness

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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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• People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.

  Caprice Crane

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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• At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.

  Rankin

  Photography, Creativity, Ninety Nine

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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, Ninety Nine, Coins

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

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• It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

  Tim Ferriss

  Lonely, Ninety Nine, People

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• A short term view will lead to a partial and perhaps twisted view of the whole picture. A crucial element may be missing. We may not be running the entire race. A friend of mine described a colleague as great at running the "ninety-five yard dash." That is a distinction I can do without. Lacking the last five yards makes the first ninety-five pointless. In fact, serious runners thing of it as a 110 yard dash so that no one will best them in the last few yards. You've got to think beyond the whole.

  Max De Pree

  Friendship, Running, Thinking

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• Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

  Brendan Behan

  Years, Two, Saint

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• Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

  Red Buttons

  Doctors, Light, Rays

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs.

  Lewis Black

  Snow, Drug, Together

  "The White Album". Comedy album, 2000.

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• Ninety percent of a shirt that not only was bright purple and green but with a design on it that, if you moved too quickly, might cause a seizure in an unsuspecting onlooker.

  Lewis Black

  Purple, Design, Green

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• When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom?

  Pat Cooper

  Eye, Boys, House

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• Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ninety Nine, Wish, Christianity

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• Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.

  Peter Menzel

  Sleep, Night, Ninety Nine

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• Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.

  Yael Cohen

  Cancer, Teaching, Years

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• Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Courage, Honesty, Attitude

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• Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Live Life, People

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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, Ninety Nine, Hundred

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• At the moment, for example, maybe ten percent of money in the world is related to goods and services. Ninety percent of money is just moving around the world, chasing money. So, money has become the ruler. And we have become the servant.

  Satish Kumar

  Moving, Example, World

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.

  Annalee Newitz

  Mass Extinction, Years, Ecosystems

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Thinking, Preparation, Want

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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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• Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.

  Carl Hart

  Color, Numbers, People

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• Why even live? If that's your goal, if you're just clamoring your way to the top, I mean, why even have a life? Somebody was telling me the other day about the lives of investment bankers who work ninety hours a week and how it affects their patterns of consumption.

  Larkin Grimm

  Mean, Goal, Bankers

  Source: therumpus.net

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