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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, Ninety Nine, Way

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There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

Ruth Rendell

Women, Taken, Two

Ruth Rendell (2010). “A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)”, p.25, Random House

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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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The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.

Robert Anton Wilson

Reading, Book, Rubbish

Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not.

Susan RoAne

Nice, People, Groups

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"We will wait," answered little Alice, taking Nettie's hand in hers, and looking up to the sky, "we will wait - ever constant and true - till the times have got so changed as that everything helps us out, and nothing makes us ridiculous, and the fairies have come back. We will wait - ever constant and true - till we are eighty, ninety, or one hundred. And then the fairies will send US children, and we will help them out, poor pretty little creatures, if they pretend ever so much."

Charles Dickens

Inspirational, Children, Hands

Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.516

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I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering passengers. But when she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. They said she was "timid and shy" but had "the courage of a lion." They were full of phrases like "radical humility" and "quiet fortitude.

Susan Cain

Sweet, Humility, Two

Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.2, Broadway Books

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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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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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Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

J. K. Rowling

Three, Four, Pages

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His view of the world is one that keeps his blood pressure low, sweeping the cholesterol from his relaxed, freeway-sized arteries. Everyone knows he is going to live till age ninety, although the question that goes begging is, “for what?

Steve Martin

Views, Blood, Age

Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons."

Karen Russell

Brother, Dad, War

"Haunting Olivia" by Karen Russell, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2005.

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For almost ninety years I’ve walked among my kind, and yours… all the time thinking I was complete in myself, not realizing what I was seeking. And not finding anything, because you weren’t alive yet.

Stephenie Meyer

Twilight, Thinking, Years

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But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ 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, Montag, 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

Art, Book, Ninety Nine

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

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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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Hmmm, I bet you’d be really cute with hornays. Not that you’re not cute right now, but you’re a bit young. You’re only what? Four in human years? Oh wait, that’s wrong, isn’t it? You ninety? (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Cute, Years, Waiting

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.173, St. Martin's Griffin

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Just don't go out fighting. I don't need to know where you're going, that's your biz. But if you get yourself killed, I got ninety-nine problems and you're the biggest one of them." Rehv to John

J.R. Ward

Fighting, Ninety Nine, Needs

J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2572, Penguin

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The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

Douglas Adams

Technology, Ninety Nine, Invisible

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume”, p.419, Del Rey

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The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

Michael Pollan

Animal, Ninety Nine, Oil

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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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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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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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... 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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George W. Bush says he spends sixty to ninety minutes a day working out. He says he works out because it clears his mind. Sometimes just a little too much.

Jay Leno

Work Out, Mind, Littles

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