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George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" · Hilary J. Bader, Ferengi Rule of Aquisition #48, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Episode 26, "Rules of Aquisition" · Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine · Marcus Aureluis, Meditations, Book nine · W. B. Yeats, Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. – Mark Twain
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. – Hobart Brown
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. – George Washington Carver
Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. – Kim Hubbard
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. – Lao Tzu
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. – C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. – Anna Jameson
Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month. – Wernher Von Braun
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. – Clive Staples Lewis
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination. – Paul Aubuchon
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. – George Bernard Shaw
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are. – D. H. Lawrence
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Alva Edison
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies. – W. Wirt
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
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. – Hunter S. Thompson
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. – Albert Einstein, Sc
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. – Albert Einstein
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. – Peter De Vries
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards. – Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper editor
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. – Calvin Coolidge
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. – Madame de Tencin
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too. – Author Unknown
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. – Theodore Roosevelt
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. – Thornton

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