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• I believe in instinct, not in 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.
  -- A. C. Benso...
• The cynics are right nine times out of ten. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• Cynics are right nine times out of ten; what undoes them is their belief that they are right ten times out of ten.
  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi...
• If people see that you mean them no harm, they'll never hurt you, nine times out of ten.
• In a three-storey building served by one elevator, nine times out of ten the elevator will be on a floor where you are not.
  -- Dedera's Law...
• Nine times out of ten the man who listens to reason is thinking of some way to refute it.
• Dedera's Law: In a three-story building served by one elevator, nine times out of ten the elevator car will be on a floor where you are not.
• If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite
  you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of ten times. -- Anselm Feuerbach...