Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.
But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd be it. But instead I happen to be, in the tree of life of writers, down at the bottom, with the hematodes.
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?