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“Three features mark the Anglo-American system as different from all others. One is the extent to which our law is formed in litigation. Another feature is the way we conduct these cases: we pit antagonists against each other, to cast up from their struggles the material of decisions. A third- and largest in the public consciousness- is the trial by jury.”

Way Different Law Three Decision Consciousness Cases Struggle Materials Thirds Mark Casts Trials Features Pits Jury Antagonist Trial By Jury

Book:The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System

Source: The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System

“There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed and those who don't know what they don't know. Then again, there is a third type of investor: the investment professional, who indeed knows he doesn't know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know.”

Knows Kind Two Type Depends Thirds Investment Investors Appearing Livelihood Bull Markets

Author:William J. Bernstein

“The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.”

Source: Following the Equator:

“As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright most of my plays have two acts because i couldn't think of an idea for the third act.”

Thinking Two Ideas Play Use Numbers Thirds Notes Musical Composer Playwright

Author:George M. Cohan

“Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'”

Source: Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth

“I really think that the planet is growing a new nervous system. I mean, when you think of Facebook as the third largest nation in the world, that's so unprecedented, so amazing. Think of how many people are texting and twittering. The planet has created a nervous system for massive, rapid connectivity.”

People Thinking World Mean Nations Growing Planets Thirds Nervous Massive Rapids Unprecedented Nervous System Texting

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“Probably about 35 percent of Donald Trump`s supporters do not believe that President [Barack] Obama is Muslim or that he was not born in the United States.Those Trump supporters are not white supremacists. But if Trump did not have the support of Obama haters who believe that the President is a Muslim, who believe that he was not born in the United States, Donald Trump would lose two-thirds of his support.”

Ifs Believe Two States President Born Loses White United United States Support Trump Percent Thirds Barack Supporter President Barack Obama

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way that helps them simplify the apparent complexities of the world so they can ignore the meaningless differences and draw connections between the things that really seem to matter. Third, based on the classification system, they propose a theory. The theory is a statement of what causes what and why, and under what circumstances.”

“If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.”

Ifs World Country Stuff Resources Thirds Capitalist Third World Third World Countries

Author:Glenn Beck

“The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.”

“There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”

World Two Thirds Stronger Competition Pens Womens Rights Pakistan Rivalry Quaid Quaid Azam

Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?”

Firsts Doe Poverty Revolution Thirds Fingers China Mess Belly Pointing Foreigners Famine Pointing Fingers

Author:Xi Jinping

“I believe in second chances, but I don't believe in third or fourth chances. I love talking through things, and I always want to make things work, if I really love someone, but eventually, if they can't fix whatever is wrong, or if they've done something and then they continue to do it, they're probably not going to change for anybody. You can't change a person.”

Ifs Want Believe Persons Done I Believe Chance Talking Thirds Don't Believe I Believe In Fourth Love Someone Second Chance Can't Change

Author:Selena Gomez

“Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how the Third Reich controlled its citizens, spread lies, and disseminated fear.”

Firsts Lying Courses Half Technology Century Citizens Thirds Radio Spread Bombs Controlled Atoms Airplane 20th Century Atom Bomb

Author:Anthony Doerr

“I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a Cause and a lot of other new things were popping up. (Again I'm trying to give you a finite version of this career.) And then I came under the sway of Wallace Stevens when I was in college and graduate school, and basically set as a life goal the ambition of writing third-rate Wallace Stevens. I thought I would be completely content if I was recognized at some later point in my life as a third-rate Wallace Stevens.”

“The Marines already have started putting women through infantry training. They've done it for the past couple of years. And it's tough. Roughly one-third of women have made it through that infantry training. So you're not going to see a lot of women actually make it through this.”

Years Made Done Past Couple Training Tough Thirds Made It Marine Infantry

Author:Renee Montagne

“Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Gun dealers say the president's initiatives have spurred sales. At the same time, polling shows more than two thirds of Americans support the president's proposals, including a majority of gun owners.”

“I always wanted to write. While I was on a long surf trip, supporting myself with various day jobs, I was working hard on a novel. My third novel, in fact.”

Writing Long Hard Facts Wanted Jobs Novel Thirds Various Surf Day Jobs

Author:William Finnegan

“I always want to sleep on the third date.”

Want Sleep Thirds Want To Sleep

Author:Blake Butler

“I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal's school and I eventually cut them because they didn't seem essential and they slowed the pace of the story in the first third of the book. They were essential to me, though, in that I learned about my characters.”

Writing Firsts Book Character Stories Seems School Cutting Essentials Thirds Pace Flashback

Author:Edan Lepucki

“I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there.”

People Way Feels Stills Matter Walks Pieces Citizens Thirds Glasses Israel Staring San Francisco Israeli Hyper

Author:Molly Antopol

“With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "Oh, you want to wear a splatter-painted, Hard Rock Café T-shirt for seven days in a row and not brush your hair? Go for it. Be who you want to be."”

Want Firsts Hard Kids School Rocks Hair Thirds Seven Shirts Brushes T Shirt Seven Days Hard Rock

Author:Annie E. Clark

“Sometimes you can just tell there's something unique about it, but you can never really truly tell until you show it to a third party - you show it to you friends, or you show it to people you know that know about music like my label or those kinda people.”

People Knows Sometimes Shows Party Unique Thirds Labels Third Parties

Author:Flume

“There`s three sort of fundamental things that happen when someone`s suffering from these issues [post-traumatic stress disorder ]. First, they get intrusive thoughts.The second issue is you become startled quickly.And the third key point is it`s avoidance.Those are the three sort of pillar fundamentals of what we consider post-traumatic stress, not violence against someone who`s close to you. There`s just a huge misunderstanding.”

Firsts Happens Suffering Three Issues Violence Huge Keys Thirds Stress Fundamentals Posts Disorder Misunderstanding Avoidance Pillars Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Author:Jon Soltz

“I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.”

World Firsts Book Kids Boys Particular Thirds Starting Drawing Obsession Comic Grades Forty Classroom Comic Book Superhero My Boys Dreamy Classmates Third Grade Marvel Comics

Author:Adam Ross

“The tripartite structure - so you remember the third brother, second brother, first brother, or the first dervish, second dervish, and third dervish. This is very like embroidering a cloth, as you have to know where you are with the knots.”

Knows Firsts Remember Brother Thirds Structure Where You Are Knots

Author:Marina Warner

“What I wound up doing, which I think is really journalistically dubious, is changing the order of some of the things I did, so that the things I ended up struggling with the most wind up being two-thirds of the way in.”

Thinking Way Two Order Struggle Wind Thirds Wounds Dubious

Author:Joel Stein

“To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.”

World Whole Shows America Europe Thirds Rewards Gross Third World Simplification Europe And America

Author:Amartya Sen

“Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and Zooey, the sister gets in trouble and the brother comes to help her out. But I wanted to make sure that in my novel the sister had more to do than lie around on a sofa muttering, which is what Franny does for two-thirds of Salinger's novel.”

Doe Two Helping Inspiration Wanted Lying Fiction Novel Written Trouble Brother Thirds Contemporary Brothers And Sisters Contemporary Fiction Sofas Muttering Salinger

Author:K. M. Soehnlein

“My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.”

Years Courses Literature Study Changed Students College Fit Musician Thirds Extraordinary Changed My Life Conservatory Studying Literature

Author:Garth Greenwell

“My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years at Harvard, I realized I didn't want an academic life.”

Want Years Firsts Thirds I Realized Professors Academic Harvard Trajectory Academic Life

Author:Garth Greenwell

“I started taking lessons in third grade because I thought it was a fun thing to do. Through my acting teacher, I got my manager. That was about 5th grade. So once that happened it kind of clicked that I probably should pursue acting as a career.”

Should Kind Fun Acting Careers Teacher Happened Lessons Thirds Pursue Managers Things To Do Grades Fun Things Third Grade Acting Teachers

Author:Jared Gilman

“It's funny, people often ask me, "Why do you do bike tours where it takes three times the effort and you make one-third of the money?" My answer is that I'm trying to do it ethically. What does that mean, exactly? That conflict is a big part of my art.”

People Trying Mean Doe Art Bigs Three Asks Answers Effort Conflict Thirds Ask Me Bike Three Times Funny People

Author:Ben Sollee

“I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do. I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking. If I'm going to do this, sacrifice time with family and friends, sacrifice resources, I need to think carefully about what I going to say and how I'm going to say it.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Two Character Fighting Asks Animal Sacrifice Identity Son Huge Goes On Dad Husband Resources Thirds Pursue Ask Me My Son Family And Friends

Author:Ben Sollee

“The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our environment, and that includes of course smoking which I believe accounted for probably 20 percent of deaths from, certainly from lung cancer, more than that from lung cancer, but from cancer overall.”

Believe Courses I Believe Environment Percent Thirds Medicine Cancer Smoking Lungs Incidents Our Environment Decrease Lung Cancer

Author:Laurie Glimcher

“I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.”

People Thinking Should Different Home Together Should Have Thirds Get Together Cafes Third Place

Author:Eric Weiner

“I think that the first point to be made is there is no "solution" in Afghanistan. Solution I put in quotes. We live in an op-ed culture, which is to say, you always need to have a solution. The last third of that op-ed piece needs to say, "Do this, this, this and this." There is no this, this, this, and this, that will make Afghanistan right.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Made Lasts Culture Pieces Solutions Thirds Afghanistan

Author:Mark Danner

“Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.”

People Thinking Mind Wells Made Changed Thirds Awful Mess Miserable Republic

Author:Robert O. Paxton

“Now, with a warrant, they can always go to the information service provider and attempt to get that information. But even then, they may not be able to because the party selling the encryption services may be a third party and may not even know who the parties are that are communicating.”

Knows May Able Party Information Thirds Communicate Selling Warrants Providers Third Parties Encryption Service Providers

Author:Rod Beckstrom

“I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.”

Firsts Persons Differences Worry Students Thirds First Person Third Person

Author:Alice McDermott

“I don't want to be one of those players that is just a first, second or third down player. I want to be a four-down player, able to play in the ground and dirt with the linemen, but also able to play in space.”

Want Firsts Play Able Space Four Player Thirds Dirt Lineman Linemen

Author:Justin Cole

“When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of sudden you're in the third act of the book and in this very dark and claustrophobic place.”

Kind Stills Book Reading Dark Laughing Happenings Thirds Noticing

Author:Moshe Kasher

“It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like, in my opinion, Eritrea, undoubtedly need to be considered a country of origin with a valid claim to asylum. And with a third group of states, like Nigeria for example, each individual case needs to be evaluated. Then there are also very controversial cases like Afghanistan. In any case, united European action is needed. This argument for Europeanization may sound utopian, but there is no alternative.”

“Well, the film initially - we had decided to pair joy with fear because I don't know about you - for me fear was a major motivator in junior high. So we thought there's probably some good stuff there... As the film went on, we had developed all these great scenes that were really funny, but in the third act, it wasn't adding up to anything.”

Knows Wells Film Joy Stuff Scene Majors Decided Thirds Pairs Juniors Junior High

Author:Pete Docter

“You can fit two United States and maybe a third one into the entire continent of Africa, but on a map we make the entire continent of Africa look like the size of the United States, which is why a lot of people don't know that Africa is a continent. They think it's a country because it looks as big as we do.”

People Thinking Knows Looks Two Country States Bigs United United States Fit Thirds Size Maps Continents

Author:Baron Vaughn

“When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.”

People Trying Years Kids Lasts Energy Numbers Gone Dying Figures Revolution Smart Thirds Average Intensity Smart People Industrial Revolution Life Span Average Life

Author:Bill Gates

“Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.”

Romance Party Elements Thirds Third Parties

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess.”

Bigs Lying My Friends Thirds Indian Grades Princess Fourth Phases Fourth Grade Les Mis

Author:Laura Benanti

“The third doorway is the Doorway of Unconditional Self-love, which corresponds to the energy center located in the solar plexus area. As I said earlier, the key to feeling love and living in love is having self-love. I mean real unconditional self-love, not "I love myself because I'm a good wife" or "I love myself because I do a good job at work" or "I love myself because I look a particular way." It's because I love myself no matter what. That's where our real power lies, in the ability to love ourselves unconditionally.”

“The sixth doorway is the Doorway of Vision. This relates to seeing with the eyes of love and corresponds to the energy center located in the third eye area of our forehead. When this doorway is open, we're more able to see life through love instead of differences.”

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Author:Marci Shimoff

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