Quotes with fraction

  • There are not words enough in all Shakespeare to express the merest fraction of a man's experience in an hour.
  • Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

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  • Leo Tolstoy 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
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Ali Smith Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Paul Gauguin Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Only a fraction of book learning will seep into practical life anyhow; and the more foolish the theory, the less of it.
    On War (1832) Ch. 23
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Burton Richter Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Carl Sagan The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman 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
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson There are not words enough in all Shakespeare to express the merest fraction of a man's experience in an hour.
    The Pocket R.L.S.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Henri Cartier-Bresson To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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  • Andre Breton Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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