Ninety Nine Quotes - Page 4

• Success is ninety-nine percent failure.

  Soichiro Honda

  Inspirational, Percent, Nine

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• There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

  Bill Shoemaker

  Winning, Way, Firsts

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• To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

  John Stuart Mill

  Thinking, Government, Acting

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.22, John Stuart Mill

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• Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Winning, Ideas, Competition

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

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• SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Civilization, People

  Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.163, Prabhat Prakashan

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• What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Ideas, Doe

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

  Albert Einstein

  Pieces, Information, Gains

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• I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Believe, Rocks

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.290, Library of Alexandria

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• Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

  Harold Geneen

  Negative, Surprise, Percent

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• All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Generosity, World, Safe

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27

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• I would advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from Heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine men were to perish, and only one of a thousand to survive and retain his liberty. One such freeman must possess more virtue, and enjoy more happiness, than a thousand slaves.

  Samuel Adams

  Struggle, Men, Heaven

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• Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the population. This means that they've gone down especially for Blacks and Hispanics and other blue-collar workers. Their net worth has actually turned negative, and they don't have enough money to get by.

  Michael Hudson

  Mean, Blue, Twenties

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.

  Casey Neistat

  Son, Percent, Nine

  Source: www.tvequals.com

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• The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.

  Jonathan Tucker

  Sacrifice, Water, Rejection

  "Star of Parenthood and Kingdom Jonathan Tucker: Giving Back". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

  Buddy Hackett

  Cocky, Voice, People

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• Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.

  Anita Roddick

  Believe, Way, Ethical

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• Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Running, Errors, Light

  "The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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• Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Book, Quality, Pages

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• Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story.

  T.C. Boyle

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen

  Cecil Rhodes

  Men, Hundred, Asks

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• I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

  Robert Powell

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

  Jan Brewer

  Gun, People, Responsible

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• You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Firsts, Enough, Hundred

  Kaye Gibbons (1993). “Charms for the Easy Life”, p.69, Penguin

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• His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Inspiration, Genius

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• I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.

  Janice Galloway

  Growing Up, Numbers, Two

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