“ One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on. ”
- Jake Simmons- Copy
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“ Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. ”
- Horace Walpole- Copy
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“ Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene — nine-tenths of it! ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience. ”
- Herschel Hobbs- Copy
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“ Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law its nine-tenths of the problem. Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment. ”
- Walter Gilbert- Copy
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“ There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. ”
- B. C. Forbes- Copy
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“ Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature. ”
- Walter Gilbert- Copy
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“ Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
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“ It can take only a tenth of a second for someone to surrender the lead and wind up in the last position. ”
- Jose Manuel Moreno- Copy
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“ Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. ”
- Antoine Rivarol- Copy
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“ If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us. ”
- Jane Rule- Copy
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“ Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time. ”
- Dale Dauten- Copy
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“ Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football. ”
- Anthony Burgess- Copy
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“ If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment. ”
- William Lilly- Copy
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“ Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
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“ Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. ”
- William Feather- Copy
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“ I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ”
- Randall Jarrell- Copy
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“ Women constitute half the world's population, perform nearly two-thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-hundredth of the world's property. ”
- United Nations report- Copy
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“ Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. ”
- Joseph Epstein- Copy
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“ I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that. ”
- Katherine Anne Porter- Copy
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