One Tenth Quotes

47 quotes by 40 authors

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
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training. — Horace Mann
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
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
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
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
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
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
Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup. — Maggie Shipstead
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
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
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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