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• Pasado, s. Parte de la eternidad de la que tenemos un ligero y lamentable conocimiento. Una línea móvil llamada Presente la separa de un período imaginario conocido como Futuro. Estas dos grandes divisiones de la Eternidad, de las cuales una borra continuamente a la otra, son completamente diferentes. Una es oscura por la tristeza y la decepción, la otra es brillante por la prosperidad y la alegría.... Sin embargo, el Pasado es el Futuro de ayer, el Futuro es el Pasado de mañana. Son uno: el conocimiento y el sueño.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dream, Disappointment, Moving

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). "El diccionario del diablo: El mundo del diablo", p.160, 谷月社.

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• Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hands, Names, Might

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). "Sobre los héroes, el culto a los héroes y lo heroico en la historia: Seis conferencias; relatadas, con enmiendas y adiciones"

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• But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Twenties, World

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• The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.

  Babe Ruth

  Mean, Yankees, Curves

  George Herman Ruth, Babe Ruth (1992). “Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

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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.

  Charla de chicas

  Years, Albums, Shows

  Fuente: uproxx.com

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• The different policies reduce damages by only a modest amount. Indeed, one of the surprises is how little the policies affect the damages from global warming. The reasons are that, because there is so much inertia in the climate system and because the Protocol reduced the global temperature increase by only a fraction of a degree over the next century.

  Henry Sylvester Jacoby

  Kyoto Protocol, Littles, Next

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• The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Thinking, Self

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• I have gone up in the Pyramids and the stones are so close together you can't force a playing card between them and (they are) in perfect alignment. So those people must have had some hydraulics or something. You take 20 men, put them around a big stone, their legs would get in the way. Even if they could lift it, 20 pairs of legs hitting against each other would throw it off balance. And they would not have it in exact alignment. Not even a fraction of an inch off.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Men, Pyramids, People

  Fuente: www.ourtimepress.com

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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

  People, Economy, Consumers

  "Por qué Robert Reich se preocupa con tanta pasión por la desigualdad económica". "PBS NewsHour" con Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. 15 de octubre de 2013.

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• When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.

  Federico Lenz

  Death, Body, No Fear

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• I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky.

  George Carlin

  Enseñanza, Media, Escuela

  Fuente: reprints.longform.org

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• All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly, are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words, all of the physical universes are only part of the physical dimensional plane, and there are thousands of dimensional planes.

  Federico Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Reality

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• Estuve en Los Ángeles. Vi los barcos más grandes que jamás hayas visto con coches saliendo de Japón, en Los Ángeles. Y yo me decía a mí mismo, les enviamos carne, es una pequeña fracción, y, por cierto, ni siquiera la quieren, tienen que luchar para aceptarla porque ni siquiera la quieren, y es muy perecedera, la devolverán, encontrarán razones para no aceptarla. Y sin embargo, los barcos, los botes, los barcos están cargados de coches, miles de coches y se están yendo.

  Donald Trump

  Fighting, Japan, Order

  Fuente: www.economist.com

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• Brains distinguish between an Us and a Them in a fraction of a second. Subliminal processing of a Them activates the amygdala and insular cortex, brain regions that are all about fear, anxiety, aggression, and disgust.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Anxiety, Brain, Subliminal

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Hay un tipo indio que elaboró un ciclo como la idea de la edad de piedra, la edad de bronce, sólo que lo hizo en uno indio. El ciclo va desde la nada hasta ahora y el siglo 20 y luego en y alrededor del ciclo hasta que la gente está realmente grooving y luego simplemente se hunde de nuevo en la ignorancia hasta que se pone de nuevo en el principio de nuevo. Así que el siglo XX es una fracción de ese ciclo, y ¿cuántos de esos ciclos ha hecho ya? Ha hecho tantos como crees y todas esas veces ha pasado exactamente por las mismas cosas, y volverá a ser así.

  George Harrison

  Ignorance, Thinking, Ideas

  Fuente: www.fifthestate.org

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• You go to other countries and you look at industries they have, and you say, let me see your regulations, and they're a fraction, just a tiny fraction of what we have.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Looks, Regulation

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Zero, Destiny, World

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.192, CUP Archive

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• Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.

  James Lovelock

  Stars, Fall, Long Ago

  "Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth". Book by James Lovelock, 1979.

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• Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.

  Seth Klarman

  Hard Work, Discipline, Long

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• It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.

  Allen Newell

  Plato, Taught Us, Space

  "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 125), March 1976.

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• Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major nation. There are frequent complaints of excessive waits for elective surgery and other inconveniences, but British citizens live slightly longer than Americans, on average, and our overall health conditions are comparable.

  Robert Kuttner

  Average, Waiting, Citizens

  Robert Kuttner (1984). “The economic illusion: false choices between prosperity and social justice”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Thinking, Government, Talking

  "Lawrence Lessig Has a “Moonshot” Plan to Halt Our Slide Toward Plutocracy". Interview with Joshua Holland, billmoyers.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

  Ian Hacking

  Ignorance, Arise, Probability

  Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Mother, Pain, Children

  Louis Auchincloss (1965). “The Rector of Justin”

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• Now the denominator ... why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator ... that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie doesn't it? [impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger] I am the Denominator. I'll give your leg a compound fraction!

  Tim Allen

  Numbers, Giving, Sound

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