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Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
Ada Lovelace
Grasp as knowledgeably as I can, my insight is merely a minuscule portion of all I seek to comprehend.
2.
Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
Ali Smith
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We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
Desmond Tutu
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When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!
Mark Lowry
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
Terence McKenna
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Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
Robert A. Heinlein
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If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.
John Yudkin
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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
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We all pretend to be very strong, and then in a fraction, you can just break down, at least for me.
Isabelle Huppert
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
Thomas Hardy
15.
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
Mario Puzo
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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
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Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun to scratch the surface!
Marianne Williamson
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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
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Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
David Hockney
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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
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Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
Marshall McLuhan
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I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.
Warren Buffett
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There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
Marge Piercy
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If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.
Robert Reich
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Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.
Ian Hacking
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Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I make a living off of playing shows; the albums only make me a fraction of what I make off of shows, especially since I'm doing around 100 shows a year.
Girl Talk
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It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.
Zach Braff
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A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece
Lyn Hejinian
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We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.
Joan Didion