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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

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
William Feather

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. 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.
William Wirt

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

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.
Tony Bennett

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Edgar Allan Poe

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.
Gene Ween

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.
David Ogilvy

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
Willie Nelson

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Peter Marshall

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
Mark Rutherford

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

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
Henry James