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• Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for … the origin of chains of high mountains … and the rise of lava to the earth’s surface.

  Reginald Aldworth Daly

  Ocean, Ice, Opposites

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• Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study; and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Giants, Might

  R. A. Torrey (2015). “D. L. Moody - Why God Used”, p.9, Editora Dracaena

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• Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Destiny, Reminders, Mere

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.26, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.

  William James

  Morning, Lying, Night

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Ideas, Judging

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, Basic Books

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• It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.

  Wendell Phillips

  Independent, Thinking, Behind You

  Wendell Phillips (1969). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Some things, you just like what you like and you stick to it. Other things, you like what you like, but the things that come with celebrity or success comes more options. There's was nine, all of the sudden there's ninety-nine things to say "yes" to, which you didn't have the option to say "yes" to yesterday.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Yesterday, Sticks, Things You Like

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

  Kalki Krishnamurthy

  Killing, Should, Tigers

  "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("The Tiger King"), 1999.

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• But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Coins, Lost

  Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.68, Charisma Media

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• To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

  Sandor Katz

  War, Bacteria, Killing

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• Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Listening, Singing, Hearing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Prayer, Names, Religion

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• I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

  Dave Winfield

  Running, Home, Careers

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• Ninety-nine percent of everyday things are things we don't need - that goes for regular visits to the hairdresser just as it does for clothing. What would it mean if we all consumed 20 percent less? It would be catastrophic. It would mean 20 percent less jobs, 20 percent less taxes, 20 percent less money for schools, doctors, roads. The global economy would collapse.

  Karl-Johan Persson

  Jobs, School, Mean

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• Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....` You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.

  Rajneesh

  College, Ideas, People

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• Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Employers, Interest, Employed

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• Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.

  James Kelman

  Stars, Reading, Emotional

  James Kelman (2012). “And the Judges Said&…: Essays”, p.56, Birlinn

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• A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5'4'tall you shouldn't be more than 5'3'tall. If he is earning five hundred rupees you should never earn more than four hundred and ninety nine rupees.That's the only rule to follow if you want a happy marriage...No partnership can ever be equal.It will always be unequal, but take care it is unequal in favor of the husband. If the scales tilt in your favor, God help you, both of you.

  Shashi Deshpande

  Husband, Feet, Wife

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