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Letter "N" » Ninety nine
«All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.»
Author: Anna Jameson
(Essayist)
| About:
Experience,
Learning,
Questioning
| Keywords:
cases, generous, just in case, merciful, ninety, Ninety nine, teaches
«Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.»
«Ninety-nine percent of requested deaths go unrecorded. It's a secret crime.»
Author: Derek Humphry
| About:
Crime,
Death and dying
| Keywords:
deaths, ninety, Ninety nine, requested, unrecorded
«Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| About:
Genius,
Inspiration,
Team work,
Work
| Keywords:
genius, inspiration, nine, nineties, ninety, Ninety nine, one percent, percent, perspiration
«He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.»
«In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.»
«I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Thinking
| Keywords:
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«His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.»
«Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
activity, automatic, habitual, hundredths, ninety, Ninety nine, Nine hundred, possibly, purely, rising, thousandth, thousandths
«Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.»
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