Quotes with nine-tenths

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  • Butch Trucks For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Birch Bayh How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • William Lyon Phelps I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • David Copperfield I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Hunter S. Thompson I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Antonin Artaud I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Albert Einstein I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ben Affleck I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carol P. Christ In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Jane Austen In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • George Bancroft In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Barney Ross It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Horace Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Brent Sexton My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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