Fractions Quotes

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What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs. — Steven Chu
Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of the… — William Zinsser
There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second.… — Sebastiao Salgado
The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room. — Shaun Derry
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay — Milton Friedman
Are global temperatures rising? Surely, they were rising from the late 1970s to 1998, but 'there has been no net global warming since 1998.' Indeed,… — John R. Lott Jr.
The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They lived… — Ludwig von Mises
If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by… — Lois Duncan
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love,… — Camille Paglia
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. — Robert A. Heinlein
Among the hundreds of so-called "UFO reports" each year, a sizable fraction of those clearly observed by reputable witnesses remain unexplained-and difficult to explain in… — Richard Hall
Over half a million women are raped in this country every year, and only a fraction of them report it because they're too ashamed. Itâ€™s… — Mariska Hargitay
A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece — Lyn Hejinian
One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much… — Marshall Sahlins
...four in five of us are, to some extent, members of faith communities. If just a fraction of this huge body of believers were to… — Ian Christie
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation,… — Yousuf Karsh
I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of… — Ada Lovelace
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a… — George Santayana

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