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• And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Fall, What Matters, Ninety Nine

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin

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• Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

  William Topaz McGonagall

  Beautiful, Time, Sorry

  William Topaz McGonagall, “The Tay Bridge Disaster”

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• Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Worry, Way

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• Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ninety Nine

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• Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Animal, Ninety Nine

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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, Ninety Nine, Funeral

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

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• Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Eye, Years, Vision

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• It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

  Alice James

  Age, Comic, Oneself

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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, Ninety Nine

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• The first ninety minutes are the most important.

  Bobby Robson

  Sports, Important, Firsts

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• Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Happiness, Attitude, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Feb 08, 2012

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• The product will remain basically unknown until seven percent of the population knows it. As soon as seven percent of the population knows about that product, on the next day, about ninety-eight percent of the population knows about it.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Next Day, Ninety Eight, Population

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

  Charles Bukowski

  Eight, Hundred, Fairs

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• One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Attention, Examination, Labs

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• ... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Memories, Rap, Loss

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.256, Vintage

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• Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, Magic, Facts

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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, Ninety Nine, Average

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

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• To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.

  Osamu Dazai

  Reality, Ninety Nine, Expectations

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• Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

  Stephen King

  Ninety Eight, People, Goes On

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?

  Sarah Vowell

  Three, Mets, Knows

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Men, Dying

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1945). “The plays of Anton Chekov: nine plays including The seagull ... and others”

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• I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Home, Family Love, Meals

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.287, Dell

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• Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.

  Katherine Applegate

  Thinking, Guy, World

  Katherine Applegate (2004). “Ever World: books I & II”

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• When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Time, Humor

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• Ninety percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.’ – Cherise

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knowing, Shut Up, Percent

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