#ninety

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first. ↗

— Bill Shoemaker

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Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and when necessary fight back. Get down off the fence and lend a hand, grab a-hold, be a citizen - not a subject. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#ninety-nine-percent #ows #power #society #freedom

Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to. ↗

— Mario Batali

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#ninety-nine #ninety-nine percent #percent #untouchable #who

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent. ↗

— Arthur Bloch

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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Albert Einstein

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Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. ↗

— Chris Evert

#far #game #gotten #me #mental

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law. ↗

— David Byrne

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