John Lewis

When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.

American Politician

W. E. B. Du Bois

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.

American Writer

Kerry Greenwood

I research every possible bit of information I can find. Then I use about a tenth of it. But I have to know all the information first; otherwise, I'm not going to convince myself, and if I can't convince myself, then I'm not going to convince the reader.

Australian Author

Barber Conable

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

Julia Roberts

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

American Actress

Gayle Lynds

The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist's research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it's even less - closer to a tenth of a percent.

American Author

Antoine Rivarol

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

French Journalist

Groucho Marx

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

American Comedian

James Worthy

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

American Athlete

Anatole France

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

French Novelist

Use 'tenth' to describe the order of things relative to others.

Ordinal Use

'Tenth' can describe a position in a sequence, like in competitions or lists.

Sequential Events

Use 'tenth' as an adjective to describe every tenth item in a repeated event.

Countable Series

'Tenth' can highlight milestones or significant occurrences.

Notable Ordinals

When sharing or dividing, 'tenth' is used to indicate an equal fraction of a whole.

Division Concept

Use 'tenth' to emphasize a small part of something compared to the whole.

Small Proportion

Use 'tenth' to informally estimate amounts without needing exact numbers.

Rough Estimates

In music, 'tenth' involves technical knowledge to understand gaps between notes.

Musical Intervals

'Tenth' in music can create more complex and rich harmonies.

Harmonic Texture

 the bottom line shows is the relationship between income levels and density across America the most dense tenth of America's counties have income levels that are 50 percent higher than the least dense half of America's counties this is a common fact throughout the world that urbanization is associated with prosperity and indeed

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 To understand the rest of the story, you have to understand that our brains are slow. What you would like is that when light hits your eye, then -- ping! -- immediately you have a perception of what the world is like. But it doesn't work that way. It takes about a tenth of a second for your perception to be created.

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 everybody go into whatever car they want everybody wants to go the tenth floor goes into car two and everybody wants to go the third floor goes into car five and the problem with that is is that people freak out people panic and you see why right you see why it's because the elevator is missing some important

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 That diagonal line is the truth line. If their dot's on it, they were telling exactly the truth. Now, as you see, most of the little dots are below the line. What it means is all the guys were lying about their height. In fact, they lied about their height about nine tenths of an inch,

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 converting three Suns' worth of stuff into pure energy in a tenth of a second. For that brief moment in time, the glow was brighter than all the stars in all the galaxies in all of the known Universe. It was a very

What the discovery of...

 Less than a tenth the size of an ant, a dust mite’s whole world is contained in the dusty film under a bed or in a forgotten corner. This realm is right under our noses, but from our perspective,

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 without turbulence, for a fraction of the energy consumption, about one tenth, to be precise, of an aircraft. And that's important, because we, as humans, have an innate need for speed.

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 Every bit of habitat we preserve, every tenth of a degree of warming we prevent, really does matter. Thankfully, I'm not motivated by hope, but rather a desire to be useful.

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 a dog's brain is one tenth the size of ours but the part that controls smell is 40 times larger even the river normally a lifeline for the animals has almost disappeared

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 what do we know about life on Earth how many species are we aware of a tenth of them a hundredth perhaps what do we know about the bonds that link them

Tenth

The one in the tenth position or location in a series.

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Being number ten in a countable series.

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One part in ten equal parts.

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An interval spanning ten concurrent notes in a diatonic scale.

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