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• Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

  Lily Tomlin

  Country, Honesty, Work

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• Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

  Peter Tork

  Baseball, Skills, Bats

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• Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

  Meg Greenfield

  Politics, Blame, Politician

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• Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

  George Pataki

  Country, Competition, Olympics

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• Ninety percent of everything is crap.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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• The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

  Arthur Bloch

  Tasks, Schedules, Lasts

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• Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

  Tim Reid

  Years, Once Upon A Time, Seven

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Inspiration, Ninety Nine

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• I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  1934 The World as I See It.

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• Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

  Jim Elliot

  Wool, China, Five

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  Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Leadership, People, Political

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• I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

  Tony Bennett

  Success, Ninety Nine, Careers

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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, Ninety Nine, Way

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• One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

  Zoot Sims

  Music, White, Jazz

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• Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Past, Forget

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• Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Knowing, People

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• Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Motivational, Badass

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• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

  Chris Evert

  Focus And Concentration, Games, Tennis

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• Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

  Thornton Wilder

  Funny, Ninety Nine, People

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 1.

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• Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Ninety Nine, Advertising

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• Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Positivity, Ninety Nine, Soul

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• Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Invisible, Percent, Who You Are

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