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My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.. — H. L. Mencken
I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in… — Miguel Indurain
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness. — Jeff Bezos
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per… — Joseph Sobran
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix. — Kanye West
And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major… — Rajneesh
Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to… — Maurice Bigelow
In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and… — Susan Blackmore
We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us. — Ruud Gullit
People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling… — Ann Winterton
He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance… — Benjamin Franklin
Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why… — James Earl Jones
Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you. — Tommy Steele
About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed… — J. C. R. Licklider
There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a… — Geoff Nicholson
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy. — Walther Nernst
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their… — Samuel Hopkins Adams
Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent. — Richie Benaud

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