Fraction Quotes

212 quotes by 189 authors

PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of… — Ambrose Bierce
Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends… — Dave Barry
INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought… — Morihei Ueshiba
The wealth gathered by Jamsetji Tata and his sons in half a century of industrial pioneering formed but a minute fraction of the amount by… — J. R. D. Tata
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful… — Henry Bessemer
Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially… — Lawrence Lessig
Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun… — Marianne Williamson
Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago. — Robert Teeter
You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality… — Frank Snepp
Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those… — Emanuel Lasker
No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're… — Paul Lockhart
There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a… — Harry Browne
I truly believe that a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination. Women of… — Prabal Gurung
Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising… — Ruth Ozeki
For every child who wants to be accepted wholly and loved unconditionally, there are others who simply want to be accepted for who they are,… — Natsuki Takaya
If the material consumption of a fraction of humanity is already harming the planet, is there an alternative path that enables all of humanity to… — Duane Elgin
A building can be designed to satisfy by the month with the regularity of the provider. Or it can give satisfaction in a very different… — Richard Neutra
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing… — Vaclav Smil
All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even… — Julian Simon
Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a… — Marianne Williamson

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