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• Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time. — Dale Dauten
• To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. — Francis Marion Crawford
• Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right. — Pat Summitt
• Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. — Horace Walpole
• 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
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• Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each… — Thornton Wilder
• The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action — Chester Barnard
• An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have… — Joseph Kittinger
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