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Letter "N" » nine
«Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
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Humorist,
Writer)
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About:
Change
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Keywords:
conversation,
knock,
knocked out,
knock on,
knock out,
knock up,
nine,
once in a while,
tenths,
weather,
weathered,
weathers
«Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
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Inventor)
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About:
Genius,
Inspiration,
Team work,
Work
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Keywords:
genius,
inspiration,
nine,
nineties,
ninety,
Ninety nine,
one percent,
percent,
perspiration
«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.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Critic,
Editor,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
a hundred,
case,
discussed,
discusses,
excessively,
hundred,
in one case,
nine,
nineties,
ninety,
Ninety nine,
obscure,
obscures,
obscurest,
obscuring,
point,
remaining
«In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.»
«Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
affairs,
as well,
breath,
draws,
each month,
except,
manages,
man of affairs,
months,
month by month,
nine,
Nine Months,
No Man,
The Affair,
This month,
Tree
«In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.»
«A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.»
Author: Lao Tzu
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
blade,
built,
hair,
heap,
heaped,
heaping,
heap up,
nine,
size,
stories,
thin,
tower,
Towered,
tree trunk,
trunk,
trunks
«He was nine years old and quite a child, but he knew his soul, it was dear to him, and he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and never let anyone enter his heart without the key of love.»
«Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.»
«A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
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About:
Democracy
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Keywords:
democracy,
fifty,
Fifty one,
forty-nine,
forty,
mob,
mobs,
Mob rule,
nine,
Nothing More,
one percent,
percent,
take away