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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 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:
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)
| Keywords:
activity, automatic, habitual, hundredths, ninety, Ninety nine, Nine hundred, possibly, purely, rising, thousandth, thousandths
