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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won… — Mark Twain
Nine! The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. Ten! If it is lost underwater, he finds it. If it's… — Billy Sunday
We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that… — Don Meyer
I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11… — Wilt Chamberlain
Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has… — Carl Sagan
A woman hath nine lives like a cat. — John Heywood
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. — Horace Walpole
I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine… — George Wald
The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was… — Thomas Carlyle
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in… — Sugata Mitra
You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and… — Ramana Maharshi
The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness,… — Wilferd Peterson
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… — Laozi
Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time. — Andrew Marr
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. — Thomas Carlyle
I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened. — Andrew Carnegie
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes… — Dale Carnegie
We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars… — P.J. O'Rourke
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to… — Lincoln Steffens
The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. — Aristotle
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day… — Mark Twain
This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid… — Terrell Owens
Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive communities a seven-year-old… — Rajneesh
Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact,… — Sean Stephenson

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