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1 " If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. "
― Warren Buffett
2 " It gives the war a whole new dimension, you know, hearing from someone right there in the thick of it. They really connected with it.’‘Maybe it reminds them of school,’ she suggests. ‘Didn’t someone describe the trenches as ninety-nine per cent boredom and one per cent terror?’‘I don’t know about boredom. God, the chaos of it, the brutality. And it’s so vivid. I’d definitely be interested in reading his poetry, if only to see how he can go from describing, you know, people getting their guts blown out, to writing about love.’‘Maybe it’s not that much of a leap,’ she says. "
― Paul Murray , Skippy Dies
3 " In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting. "
― Osamu Dazai , The Setting Sun
4 " Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. "
― Jonathan Sacks , Letters to the Next Generation 2: Reflections on Jewish Life
5 " Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. "
