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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.


George Bancroft
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Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.


Kevin Richardson
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If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.
Anselm Feuerbach
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I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.


Rob Lowe
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.


Sandra Day O'Connor
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.


Jack Davenport
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I don't ask other artists for too much advice.


Blake Shelton
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Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.
Torrey DeVitto
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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
Hampton Sides
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When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I'd lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.
Gayle King
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Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.


Thomas Moore
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When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.
Christopher Hitchens
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Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
Pele
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
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I live in a country where I'd say nine out of ten people know me when I walk through the streets. There's people taking pictures, there's tabloids trying to make up stories. I'm used to that. The same thing when I'm in Australia or the U.K.: I get stopped.
Trevor Noah
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.


Abraham Lincoln
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.


Jorge Luis Borges
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I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.
Gunter Grass