#ninety

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

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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 leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

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

— George Washington Carver

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Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

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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

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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

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

— David Ogilvy

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Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly. ↗

— Cory Lidle

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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed. ↗

— Eddie Perez

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