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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

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.
Moon, People, Fractions

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

Marge Piercy
Way, Great Men, Fractions
Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

Lyn Hejinian
Pieces, Fractions, Fragments
Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.70, Wesleyan University Press

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
Want, Facts, Fractions
FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 07, 2011

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

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

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
Years, Albums, Fractions
Source: uproxx.com

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