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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered
there is only error to be exposed. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "Prejudices, Third Series", 1922...
Nine times out of ten the man who listens to reason is thinking of some way to refute it.
Nine times out of ten the statisticians are wrong.
Nine-track tapes and seven-track tapes And tapes without any track
Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets--which means the people in the other two percent of the households have to generate their own sex and violence.
-- Franklin P. Jone...
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans.
It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity....
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-- George Washington Carve...
Ninety-nine percent of all forms of life that have ever existed on earth are now extinct.
Ninety-Ninety Rule: n. "The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time.
The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time." A...
Ninety percent of any business transaction is selling yourself to the client. -- X. Hollande

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