Fractions Quotes - Page 13

• No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?

  Paul Lockhart

  Math, Numbers, Use

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• There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a fraction of what's going on in the world. You don't have to attach explanations in terms of a special revelation of God's will, a glimpse at the supernatural, evidence of a conspiracy, or anything else.

  Harry Browne

  Wisdom, Special, World

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• I truly believe that a beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination. Women of integrity, depth, sensuality and strength have always been my source of inspiration, the reason for what I do and how I got to where I am today. They are all my muse. If my quest, in what I do - to make women look and feel beautiful - reflects even a tiny fraction of my deep-rooted respect for them, and succeeds in celebrating these lives of strength and substance, then I will consider it a job well done.

  Prabal Gurung

  Beautiful, Jobs, Integrity

  "On Women, Power and Fashion" by Prabal Gurung, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2013.

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• Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Opportunity, Life And Death, Passing Away

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.273, Canongate Books

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• For every child who wants to be accepted wholly and loved unconditionally, there are others who simply want to be accepted for who they are, even if they receive only a fraction of love. I don't think one cancels out the other. I don't believe that there is any right or wrong... we simply coexist.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• A one year study by the Washington Post has documented 620 cases in which experimental drugs have been implicated in the deaths of cancer patients....And they amount to merely a fraction of the thousands of people who in recent years have died or suffered terribly from cancer experiments.

  Ted Gup

  Cancer, Dark, Years

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• How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Book, Knowledge, Cutting

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• Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.

  Dave Matthews

  Wish, Fans, Band

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• The longest time that man may live,
  The lapse of generations of his race,
  The continent entire of time itself,
  Bears not proportion to Eternity;
  Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew
  Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean!
  There is the time of man--his proper time,
  Looking at which this life is but a gust,
  A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Ocean, Men, Race

  James Sheridan Knowles (1838). “The Maid of Mariendorpt: A Play, in Five Acts”, p.107

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• I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically .05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.

  Lawrence Lessig

  America, Views, Insane

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• the American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Fighting, Men

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.207, Broadway Books

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• The fundamental act of medical care is assumption of responsibility. Surgery has assumed responsibility for disease which is largely acute, local or traumatic. This is responsibility for the entire range of injuries and wounds, local infections, benign and malignant tumors, as well as a large fraction of those pathologic processes and anomalies which are localized in the organs of the body. The study of surgery is a study of these diseases, the conditions and details of their care.

  Francis Daniels Moore

  Responsibility, Details, Fundamentals

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• Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue doing so for who knows how long, because of the basic thing we love about movies, which is storytelling and performances.

  Curtis Hanson

  Long, Office, Storytelling

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love how I can see [on Twitter] some of the thoughts and ideas of my favorite cultural figures and still also chatter with my friends and family. It's a cocktail party with a fraction of the awkwardness of an actual cocktail party.

  Roxane Gay

  Party, Ideas, Family And Friends

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I asked my wife, 'On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you
  rate me as a lover?' She said, 'You know I'm no good
  at fractions.'

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Wife, Lovers, Scales

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• It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.

  David Elkind

  Children, Teaching, Mean

  David Elkind (1995). “TIES THAT STRESS”, p.131, Harvard University Press

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• The wealth gathered by Jamsetji Tata and his sons in half a century of industrial pioneering formed but a minute fraction of the amount by which they enriched the nation. The whole of that wealth is held in trust for the people and used exclusively for their benefit. The cycle is thus complete; what came from the people has gone back to the people many times over.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Son, People, Gone

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