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Nine-Tenths Quotes

Benjamin Disraeli quote: "Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever..."
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. Benjamin Disraeli
Horace Walpole quote: "Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be..."
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. Horace Walpole
Mary Lyon quote: "Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking..."
Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought. Mary Lyon
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. T. E. Lawrence
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. Theodore Roosevelt
Peter S. Beagle quote: "I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art? not that..."
I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art? not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course. Peter S. Beagle
That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here. Graham Swift
John Lennon quote: "Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of..."
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. John Lennon
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. H. L. Mencken
Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of pick-that-up and you’re-going-to-be-late, keepers of the diary of her duties and routines, memories, rather, of when they found one another afresh, beyond the tensions between parental mastery and inept childish uncertainty, of those moments of respite in a family’s life when they could reach one another in calm Philip Roth
It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys. Terry Prachett
We stood silent. After a moment I said, "Real Geniuses never think they're geniuses."Who says?"Me."Because why?"Because genius is nine-tenths perspiration. Haven't you ever heard that? As soon as you think you're a genius, you slack off. You think everything you do is so great and everything. Jeffrey Eugenides
C. S. Lewis quote: "Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that..."
Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love. C. S. Lewis
Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What... Herman Hesse
After some years of muddled thinking on the subject, he suddenly saw quite clearly what it was he had been running away from; why he had refused Sandy's first invitation, and what the trouble had been with Charles. It was also the trouble, he perceived, with nine-tenths or the people here tonight. They were specialists. They had not merely accepted their limitations, as Laurie was ready to accept his, loyal to his humanity if not to his sex, and bringing an extra humility to the hard study of... Mary Renault

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