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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. — George Bernard Shaw
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this… — Neal Stephenson
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough… — Booth Tarkington
Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean… — Karen Marie Moning
We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the… — George Washington Carver
The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,… — Michael Pollan
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and… — Douglas Adams
Just don't go out fighting. I don't need to know where you're going, that's your biz. But if you get yourself killed, I got ninety-nine… — J R Ward
But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The… — Ray Bradbury
I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine...… — Francesca Lia Block
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does ... Ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent. — Neil Gaiman
Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The… — Ray Bradbury
To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent… — Osamu Dazai
I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.'… — Daphne du Maurier
Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a… — Jeff Lindsay
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming. — Stephenie Meyer
Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.… — Susan Cain
Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me. — Sylvia Day
And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart — Holly Goldberg Sloan
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of… — Thomas A. Edison
Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. — E. O. Wilson
Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics. — Alexander Smith
Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing. — Linda Ronstadt
I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli...… — Arlie Russell Hochschild

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