A Quote by James A. Garfield
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
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The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten-I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.
I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop.
You are overboard in deep open water without a PFD (personal floatation device), or at least that's what your instructor is yelling. Sink or swim, plebe.
I tell people that the best thing that can ever happen to you is getting fired, and you can either sink or swim, and I swam like hell. The reason why I swam the way I swam was because there was nothing else for me.
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.
Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.
People accuse me of going overboard preparing for my first ten million years in eternity; in my opinion, people go overboard in worrying about their last ten on earth.
Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.
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