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Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Robert Teeter

Government, Years, Giving

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Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Borders, Target, Information

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What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

Seth Lloyd

Information, Computer, Significant

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You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

John Ortberg

Opportunity, Choices, Tiny

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There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.

Marge Piercy

Way, Great Men, Organize

Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity

Lois Duncan

Past, Years, Bird

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Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Together, Cameras

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Are global temperatures rising? Surely, they were rising from the late 1970s to 1998, but 'there has been no net global warming since 1998.' Indeed, the more recent numbers show that there is now evidence of significant cooling [...] Mankind is responsible for just a fraction of one percent of the effect from greenhouse gases, and greenhouse gases are not responsible for most of what causes warming (e.g., the Sun).

John R. Lott Jr.

Numbers, Rising, Sun

"Global Warming: Is It Really a Crisis?" by John R. Lott Jr., www.foxnews.com. March 3, 2008.

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There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room.

Shaun Derry

Football, Rooms, Palaces

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Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Ali Smith

Too Late, Realizing, Before It's Too Late

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Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so unique as we should like to believe.

Robert Ardrey

Believe, Animal, Unique

"African Genesis".

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In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

Vilfredo Pareto

Leadership, Numbers, Elements

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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

Thinking, People, Wells

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Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays.

Edith Stein

Oneness, Broken, Diversity

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Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.

Graham Greene

Pain, Night, Light

Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

Gail Collins

Party, People, Tea

"What the Tea Party Really Wants". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 01, 2010.

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If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.

John Pilger

Children, War, Support

"This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

Agatha Christie

Education, Father, Math

Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression. And this organization, this precision, will always escape you, if you do not appreciate what a picture is, if you do not understand that the composition, the logic, the equilibrium of the surfaces and values are the only ways of giving meaning to all that is continuously appearing and vanishing before our very eyes.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Eye, Expression

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Over half a million women are raped in this country every year, and only a fraction of them report it because they're too ashamed. It’s a really screwed up world, but its not your fault, and what happened to you, it doesn't make you the monster.

Mariska Hargitay

Country, Years, Monsters

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Among the hundreds of so-called "UFO reports" each year, a sizable fraction of those clearly observed by reputable witnesses remain unexplained-and difficult to explain in conventional terms. There is a modicum of physical evidence, radar cases, residual effects, and some films-and photographs in support of the unexplained cases. Collectively, these cases constitute a genuine scientific mystery, badly in need of well-supported, systematic investigation.

Richard Hall

Years, Support, Needs

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If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?

Philip Pullman

Book, Reading, Writing

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With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of neutrons. Such a star may possess a very small radius and an extremely high density. As neutrons can be packed much more closely than ordinary nuclei and electrons, the gravitational packing energy in a cold neutron star may become very large, and under certain conditions may far exceed the ordinary nuclear packing fractions.

Fritz Zwicky

Stars, Science, Views

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Education is thus a most power ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teachings?

Charles Francis Potter

Education, Children, Teaching

Charles Francis Potter, Mrs Clara (Cook). Potter (1930). “Hvmanism: A New Religion”

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The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.

James K. Morrow

Tombstone, Book, Writing

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