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Letter "N" » ninety
«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.»
«A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.»
Author: Garson Kanin
(
Actor,
Film Director,
Writer)
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About:
Age,
Longevity,
Questioning
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Keywords:
attributed,
longevity,
nights,
ninety,
reckon,
reckons,
Sat,
slept,
twinkle,
twinkling,
worried
«Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.»
Author: George F. Will
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Keywords:
Chicago,
Chicago Cubs,
cub,
cubs,
fanned,
fanning,
fans,
ninety,
scar,
scar tissue,
The Fan,
tissue,
tissues
«Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(
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
«I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.»
«And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!»
Author: Dr. Seuss
(
Cartoonist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
eight,
guaranteed,
guaranteeing,
indeed,
nineties,
ninety,
Ninety eight,
percent,
quarters,
three-quarter,
yes
«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
(
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
«If you treat people right they will treat you right -- ninety percent of the time.»
«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)
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About:
Thinking
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Keywords:
conclusion,
each month,
false,
falser,
falsest,
For,
hundredth,
hundredths,
in conclusion,
I am,
months,
month by month,
nine,
nines,
nineties,
ninety,
Ninety nine,
Nine Months,
nine times,
right,
that year,
The Conclusion,
the year after,
think,
This month,
time,
times,
years
«Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.»