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gay nineties

[gay nineties] {n.} The years between 1890 and 1900; remembered as a happy exciting time. * /Ladies wore large hats in the gay nineties./ * /Picnics were popular in the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. www.sky-net-eye.com

John Kendrick Bangs

(1862-1922), writer Although man is already ninety percent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied. www.sky-net-eye.com

Albert Einstein

(1879-1955), scientist I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. www.sky-net-eye.com

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