A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
quote by Leo Tolstoy
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But Whole
No fraction but whole
No part no term
No denominator
No numerator
No zero
No alteration
Value more and more
And the common factor
In both upper and lower
Number non-zero
And always assured.
poem by Gajanan Mishra
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Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.
quote by Jenna Elfman
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Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.
quote by Lawrence Lessig
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Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.
quote by George G. Simpson
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No. 1 Lowest Common Denominator
I wanna see your number 1 lowest common denominator
You're so hot! what choo got?
On the outside i'm a good boy
Let me inside 'cause i'm full of joy
I don't want to shock you but i'm an electric eel
How's that make your denominator feel?
Think i'll surprise her
I can always depend on my great equalizer
I wanna grind, lose your mind
I kissed you once, but will i kiss you again?
Be certain with sex and you'll always have friends
Your glands wanna freak, your hands wanna speak
And your mind slips away at the peak
Recitation (a poem of love)
Time stops - the light goes on
A thundering head and no body
Washed up and woke up on the beach,
Seaside breakfast
A tender egg on white sand
Legs long and tan without a break, even to the neck
Suddenly, simultaneously, an eclipse and a snowfall
Flakes melt instantly on the shoulders like wet silver
Burning little holes all the way to the marrow
Puckered flesh like avocado sags into a green pool
All the birds leave turquoise ruts
Across the velveeta sky
It's time to scream
I wanna be your number 1 lowest common denominator
song performed by by Todd Rundgren
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
quote by Vernor Vinge
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Even Goes
waking up late, it seems a little like always
day is gray and nothing's right - psyche
I close my eyes - I see the river runs blood red
and the hourglass is dripping on the wrong side,
I'm tripping on the wrong side - right
going blind
even goes and it shows it's just a fraction of it all
even goes and I know that time will break my fall
getting up tired, and nothing's like always
making my day - I'm going blind - psyche
memories blurred yet I wanna start all new
and I try to take a walk here on right side
I'm walking on the bright side - right
going blind
even goes and it shows it's just a fraction of it all
even goes and I know that time will break my fall
even goes
even goes
even goes and it shows it's just a fraction of it all
even goes and I know that time will break my fall
song performed by by H-BlockX
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Simple Observation #160 - The common denominator of all......
The common denominator of all numbers is one
without which, of course, there would be none.
poem by George Krokos
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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
quote by Soren Kierkegaard
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Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.
quote by Juliette Binoche
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
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Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
quote by George Santayana
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
quote by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
quote by Hannah Arendt
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The Need For Emptiness
a door's way
to welcome you is
simply to open
itself
the living room
outdoes it
but letting you
breathe
more space
the common
denominator of this
entertainment
equation is still
the capacity
to contain
emptiness
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
quote by Nick Hornby
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A fraction of the mental sphere
dawdle a line over white
a meteor has shuttled
through space,
a fraction of the white
the distance the time
it travels from your mind
to the piece of white
two inches in one's mental sphere
equal two million miles in space
space steals its way from mental sphere
the way you chart the line in white,
that catches only a fraction of the mind
put space and mind side by side
the latter would convulse as it
charts its own boundlessness
beyond the former
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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At Home With Emptiness
a door's way
to welcome you is
simply to open
itself
the living room
outdoes it
by letting you
breathe
more space
the common
denominator of all these
forms of
entertainment
is still
the capacity
to contain and be at
home with
emptiness
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.
quote by Nick Rahall
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Denominator Common
the common denominator of all
passions and emotions is fear
I fear such blanket statements
audacious and daring
bold and undearing
fraught with thoughts unfeeling
poem by Shimon Weinroth
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