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• The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Lying, Ninety Nine

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• Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.

  Nora Roberts

  Eight, One Day, Abnormal

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• I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Ninety Nine, Percent

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• Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-
  nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Reality, Smell, Ninety Nine

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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• Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.

  Susan Cain

  Lying, Inspiration, Persistence

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.169, Broadway Books

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• I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Hangover, Monotonous Life, Smell

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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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• Kylie stormed into Holiday's office. She dropped down into the seat across from the desk and looked her friend and camp leader right in the eyes. "I hate boys. I'm seriously considering going lesbian." Holiday's expression was part grin, part groan. "If it was that easy, ninety percent of the women in the world would be gay." She made a funny little face and then asked, "So...boy problems?

  C.C. Hunter

  Hate, Holiday, Eye

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• Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me.

  Sylvia Day

  Fun, Angel, Ninety Nine

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.595, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium.

  Desmond Morris

  Hair, Self, Two

  The Naked Ape introduction (1967)

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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, Ninety Nine

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• When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

  John F. Kennedy

  Positive, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Men, Water, Liberty

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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 only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

  Sepp Herberger

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• The first ninety minutes are the most important.

  Bobby Robson

  Sports, Important, Firsts

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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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