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• We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.

  John Green

  Swings, Problem, Swing Sets

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.74, Penguin

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• Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a zombie through the same steps of the dance we plodded through yesterday and the day before and the day before. It seems horribly dull and pointless-but it really makes a great deal of sense. After all, if you only have to follow the same path every day, you don't need to think at all. Considering how good humans are at any mental process more complicated than chewing, isn't that the best for everybody?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Moving, Tired, Thinking

  Jeff Lindsay (2011). “Double Dexter: Dexter Morgan (6)”, p.36, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• So you’re suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I’m sure the Clave will be ecstatic.” “They’ll just say you’re mad,” said Jessamine. “They already think it, so what’s the difference, really?

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Thinking, Hair

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• I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Ninety Nine, World, Thirty

  Daphne du Maurier (1969). “My Cousin Rachel”

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All of Europe is tremendously integrated now; perhaps from all those years of colonization. Everybody that they've colonized has come to the mainland, so you'll have a racially diverse audience as well. You'll have many Middle Easterners, Asians, Africans, from seven to ninety sitting in the audience, and the really incredible thing is that they all know the music. I don't mean they just know a song here and there. They know the music. They are a very educated audience.

  Patti Austin

  Song, Mean, Years

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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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• Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] Laâbi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Art, Organization, Risk

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do enjoy that folks [ Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin] really get into [ Aladdin ] because I enjoy getting it. I love it where you just get to go nuts. Ninety percent of what you hear, he wrote. There's ten percent that he let me play around with in the studio and actually put in the script if it was funny enough.

  James Monroe Iglehart

  Nuts, Play, Scripts

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

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• Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

  Frank Gehry

  Architecture, Building, Percent

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the population. This means that they've gone down especially for Blacks and Hispanics and other blue-collar workers. Their net worth has actually turned negative, and they don't have enough money to get by.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, Ninety Nine, Blue

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Ninety percent of my thoughts are, "How will this work on the radio?"

  Rush Limbaugh

  Radio, My Thoughts, Percent

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.

  Ralph Nader

  School, Thinking, Bridges

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it is the greatest danger true religious experience has ever been confronted with.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, America, People

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.

  Rakim

  Islam, Fabric, Persons

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• In most cases, I don't know how much, I cannot say if it's ninety nine percent or eighty percent, but the problem with incestuous relationships is that they often come from frustration. And from need of power.

  Gaspar Noe

  Frustration, Ninety Nine, Needs

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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