Quotes with tenth

  • I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

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  • Katherine Anne Porter I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Groucho Marx I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Arthur E. Waite If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Bertrand Russell Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Horace Walpole Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Will Rogers Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Horace Mann Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Abbie Hoffman The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Bobby Scott The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Jeremy Bentham 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 the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • B. C. Forbes There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
    Source:  Forbes Epigrams Or 1,000 Thoughts on Life
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Asa Hutchinson We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Barber Conable Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
    Source: The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91
    Barber Conable
    American politician (1922 - 2003)
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