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«Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success»
«Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Change
| Keywords:
conversation, knock, knocked out, knock on, knock out, knock up, nine, once in a while, tenths, weather, weathered, weathers
«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»
«History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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arbitrary, befallen, befalls, calamities, deceivers, destroyers, foundering, founders, human origin, noted, origin, tenths, The Destroyers, The Founders, the union
«Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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appeal, concerning, due to, inculcate, inculcated, indecent, moralist, moralists, occur, physiological, pornography, sex appeal, tenth, tenths
«Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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Affection
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affection, durable, lives, nines, Nine Lives, responsible, responsible for, solid, solidest, tenths, whatever
«Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it . . .»
«Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene - nine-tenths of it!»
«Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness»
«I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le»
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