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Decimals Quotes

Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep. Haruki Murakami
Christopher Hitchens quote: "Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because..."
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. Christopher Hitchens
Proving nothing," said Ford. "I wouldn't trust that computer to speak my weight."I can do that for you, sure," enthused the computer, punching out more ticker tape. "I can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if it will help. Douglas Adams
After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence. A. J. Jacobs
It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladies. Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. Or affection. It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to... Arundhati Roy
What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts! Robert A. Heinlein
I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them. Sylvia Plath
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. Arundhati Roy
I'm sure the Bursar would not agree with those figures," said the Senior Wrangler sourly."That is so,' said Ponder, "but I'm afraid that is because he regards the decimal point as a nuisance. Terry Prachett
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8. Walter Mosley
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before. Arthur Erickson
In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. James C. Maxwell
William Gilmore Simms quote: "I believe that economists put decimal points in their..."
I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor. William Gilmore Simms
Tom Lehrer quote: "Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you..."
Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your . Tom Lehrer
Paul Butterfield quote: "They want to create rather than decimate."
They want to create rather than decimate. Paul Butterfield

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