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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.»
«Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.»
«Ninety-nine percent of requested deaths go unrecorded. It's a secret crime.»
«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
«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.»
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
«I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.»
Author: Albert Einstein
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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
«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)
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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.»