Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Or, at least, one-tenth of the cabin trunks were full of vivid and often painful and uncomfortable memories of her past life; the other nine-tenths were full of penguins, which suprised her. Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized she must be exploring her own subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed to use only about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was very clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.
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Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
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Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
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The nine-tenths prove man's love, but the one-tenth tests man's legal obedience.
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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
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Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. I...
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Possession is nine tenths of the law.
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Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Wisdom
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