One Tenth Quotes
47 quotes by 40 authors
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of…
— Jeremy Bentham
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It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
— Benjamin Franklin
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People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of…
— Thomas Sowell
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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.
— Jake Simmons, Jr.
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It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that…
— Paul McCartney
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If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in…
— Ramakrishna
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My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They say,…
— Chael Sonnen
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A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a…
— Bill McKibben
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My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's…
— Jefferson Davis
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Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
— Horace Mann
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The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain.…
— Ellen Meloy
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It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it…
— Beryl Markham
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If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once,…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate…
— George S. Clason
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The label of 'marathoner' has, from the beginning, been awarded to those who went the distance under their own power, whether they ran, walked, crawled…
— Jeff Galloway
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I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.
— Maggie Shipstead
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To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere,…
— Paul J. H. Schoemaker
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The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm,…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its…
— Daniel Yergin
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