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• With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.

  Bob Brown

  Money, Children, War

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• INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Teaching, Practice

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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• Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou.

  Dave Barry

  Errors, Giving, Support

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• Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Happiness, Envy, Bliss

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2015). “We”, p.21, HarperCollins

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• Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

  Thomas Hardy

  Thinking, Units, Integers

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.314, 谷月社

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• Los videojuegos violentos que se juegan en lugares públicos son una fracción minúscula de la violencia mediática a la que están expuestos los niños estadounidenses modernos. Minúscula y, a juzgar por los antecedentes de este caso, no muy violenta en comparación con lo que los niños pueden ver hoy en día en la televisión y en las salas de cine.

  Richard Posner

  Niños, Gobierno, Medios de comunicación

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• The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions

  Ogden Nash

  Inspiration, Way, Action

  Ogden Nash (1945). "The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash", New York : Modern Library

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• I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults, who, at best, know only a fraction of what they say. The reason is simply that children know everything with their whole beings, while we know it only with our heads.

  Jacques Lusseyran

  Children, Differences, Adults

  Jacques Lusseyran (2014). “And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II”, p.7, New World Library

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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

  Sugar, Used, Relation

  John Yudkin (1972). “Sweet and dangerous: the new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and other killers”

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• The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families reported zero wealth or negative net worth, and a significant fraction of those said they were "underwater" on their home mortgages, owing more than the value of the home. This $11,000 average is 50 percent lower than the average wealth of the lower half of families in 1989, adjusted for inflation.

  Janet Yellen

  Zero, Home, Average

  Janet Yellen's Speech At the Conference on Economic Opportunity and Inequality at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. October 17, 2014.

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• Nuestras maravillosas nuevas tecnologías de la información aumentan nuestro poder y nuestras oportunidades de compromiso político, pero también pueden restarnos poder al contribuir a una movilización política extrema que a veces desborda nuestras instituciones. Estas instituciones fueron diseñadas para sociedades rurales que funcionaban a una fracción ínfima de la velocidad actual y con una ciudadanía mucho menos capaz que la de hoy. No está claro cómo cambiarán para adaptarse a la nueva realidad, pero deben cambiar.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Technology, Opportunity, Reality

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• The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of DNA messages give or take a few mutations are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years; or, in other words, ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes. Each individual organism should be seen as a temporary vehicle, in which DNA messages spend a tiny fraction of their geological lifetimes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dna, Years, Giving

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• Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

  George Orwell

  Dirty, Reading, Thinking

  George Orwell (1986). “Coming Up for Air”, Harvill Secker

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• We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.

  Robert Reich

  Teacher, Wall, Important

  "Robert Reich Sounds Off On How America Has Failed Its Students". Interview with Danny Feingold, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2015.

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• Las normas de comportamiento no escritas son infinitas, finamente matizadas y sutiles hasta la última fracción de grado. No deben romperse. Si se rompen, las reglas del perdón que conducen al restablecimiento son igualmente de aire y de hierro. Aprendo estas reglas con bastante menos facilidad que mis contemporáneos porque, en los entresijos de mi ser, se desarrolla y aumenta en fervor un duelo entre mi instinto, que sabe por qué algo es así, y mi inteligencia gallinácea, que desea analizar por qué algo es así.

  Hal Porter

  Arte, Aire, Hierro

  Hal Porter, Mary Lord (1980). "Hal Porter", Univ of Queensland Pr

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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

  World, Tiny, Perceive

  "Understanding and Imagination in the Light of Nature". Book by Terence McKenna, 1987.

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• Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. The photographers eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimeter. He can modify perspectives by a slight bending of the knees. By placing the camera closer to or farther from the subject, he draws a detail — and it can be subordinated, or he can be tyrannized by it.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Moving, Eye, Perspective

  "The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers".

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• The [Moon] surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.

  Neil Armstrong

  Science, Moon, Toes

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• Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

  Anne Tyler

  Weed, Men, Vegetables

  Anne Tyler (1992). “If Morning Ever Comes”

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• Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It's like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it's hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you've gained all the experiences it had.

  Andy Weir

  Beautiful, Glasses, Water

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• If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.

  Milton Friedman

  Compassion, Punishment, Drug

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• [L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Integers, Cease

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). "Los problemas reales de la gente real: Soluciones para los cristianos"

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• As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

  Murray Kempton

  Names, Political, Enemy

  Murray Kempton (1972). "América llega a la edad madura: columnas, 1950-1962".

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• But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Smart, Stupid, Home

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• I am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of compromises and I am tired of the strategy that divides us from each other. It is time for us to unite across state boundaries in a truly nationwide movement to win full, actual equality, which can only come from the federal government. That's not my opinion. That's a fact.

  Cleve Jones

  Tired, Fighting, Winning

  Fuente: www.bilerico.com

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