Quotes with portion

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  • Raymond Chandler The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • William Wordsworth The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The only gift is a portion of thyself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Benjamin Peirce There are many cases of these algebras which may obviously be combined into natural classes, but the consideration of this portion of the subject will be reserved to subsequent researches.
    Linear Associative Algebra Natural Classification, p. 119
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  • Bill Engvall To be honest with you, I still eat whatever I want. It's all about portion control. I still love pizza, but instead of eating half, I eat a slice.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Chief Seattle We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Baba Kalyani We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Alexander Mackenzie We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
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  • Buzz Aldrin We should've asked China to be a portion of the space station. We should've worked out ways that we can... just give away the technology that we have that puts things up into space, with cooperation up above the atmosphere that's needed to help each other.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Angelina Grimke What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • William Blake When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Hood A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
    Thomas Hood
    English poet, author and humorist (1799 - 1845)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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