Fractions Quotes

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  A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Math, Men, Thinking

  graf Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings”

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• It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Dream, Years, Mold

  Mary E. Pearson (2014). “The Kiss of Deception”, p.279, Macmillan

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• Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

  Steven Wright

  Funny Motivational, Teaching, Math

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• The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Children, Growing Up

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• We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.

  Winston Churchill

  Exciting Adventures, Capacity, Adventuring

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• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Happiness, Smile, Heartfelt

  The Friend (1828)

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• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  The Friend (1828)

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• We live but a fraction of our lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Our Lives

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.

  Herbert Otto Gille

  Inspiring, Confidence, Spiritual

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• Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

  John C. Maxwell

  Impact, Good Leadership, Ability

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

  Danica McKellar

  Numbers, Flip, Want

  Danica McKellar (2010). “Maths Doesn't Suck: How to survive year 6 through year 9 maths without losing your mind or breaking a nail”, p.97, Penguin UK

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• To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Heart, Mean

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

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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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• 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 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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• Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

  Paul Gauguin

  Life, Littles, Eternity

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Government, Years, Giving

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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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• What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

  Seth Lloyd

  Information, Computer, Significant

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• Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Borders, Target, Information

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