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• Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.

  Steve Albini

  Sound, Add, Fundamentals

  "Talking to Shellac About Music, Food, and Poker". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. October 07, 2011.

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• If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

  Max Levchin

  Games, People, Challenges

  "Davos Interviews: Max Levchin Says Slide Now Makes Almost All Of Its Money From Virtual Goods". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. February 1, 2010.

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• I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.

  Christine Lakin

  Kids, Ucla, Class

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• 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 way, by the moment, the fraction of a second, with the thrill of a lover

  Richard Neutra

  Giving, Different, Thrill

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• For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.

  Alex Steffen

  Talking, Cities, Impact

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• I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Jobs, Nice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Children, Home

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics”, p.175, Booklassic

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• We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Ideas, Proud, Currents

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• Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

  David Hockney

  Photograph, Scrutiny, Accounts

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• Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.

  Ted Turner

  Crazy, Communication, Cost

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• The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

  Vernor Vinge

  Humanity, Domain, Elites

  "The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era". Presentation at VISION-21 Symposium, edoras.sdsu.edu. March 1993.

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• No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

  Julian Baggini

  Cosmos, Failing, Awe

  "Philosophy v science: which can answer the big questions of life?" by Julian Baggini and Lawrence Krauss, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existence…the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason

  Steven Pinker

  Uplifting, People, Soul

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.170, Penguin

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• Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

  Calvin Trillin

  People, Three, Trouble

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• Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

  Charles Dickens

  Business, Men, Morality

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• To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Second Chance

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• 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 very modestly, spent only a fraction of their earnings for their households and put the rest back into the business.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Earning, Social

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• The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Being Single, Making Love

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.

  Rineke Dijkstra

  Lying, Matter, Kind

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• The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

  Elsa Barker

  Art, Common, Problem

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• 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 important legal device.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creative, Important, Tiny

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• Images
  split the truth
  in fractions.

  Denise Levertov

  Splits

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

  Charles Jaffe

  Business, Cutting, Two

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• This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.

  Marvin Minsky

  Smart, Simple, Technique

  "AL's Legacy: 2001's Computer As Dream and Reality". Book by David G. Stork (p. 15), February 6, 1998.

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• Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  India, Population, World

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