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“Two-thirds of Americans believe that, after a baby's heart is beating and they can feel pain, that they need some protection.”

Needs Feels Believe Heart Two Pain Baby Thirds Protection

Author:Barack Obama

“There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a meld of government and commerce - you really want to keep those two things separate - because once you have that meld, you've got megacorruption, and you have no third force to whom you can say this stuff is poisoning our kids.”

Want Two States Government Kids Force Stuff United United States Security Thirds Police Two Things Commerce Poisoning

Author:Margaret Atwood

“What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.”

People Two Voice Chance Results Produce Thirds Champion Motivated Public Service

Author:Olympia Snowe

“Full color experience is peculiarly satisfying even though it is exhausting and leaves you feeling two-thirds color blind when you're not making the effort.”

Two Feelings Effort Color Thirds Blind Satisfying Exhausting

Author:William Tapley Bennett Jr.

“As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist -- Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.”

Knows Two Values Grows Jokes Thirds Marxist

Author:Karen DeCrow

“During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'”

Thinking Knows Wells Children Littles Two War Jobs Remember Girl Bits Little Bit Thirds Iraq Grades Gulf War Third Grade

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“Every time I got drunk, this girl named Nikki would show up. When I got drunk, I was just a different person. This is a totally different person than Lisa. When these two started to battle it out, I had to create a third person to come in and straighten the two of them out. Nina, my evil twin who came from within, who I blame my sins on. (satanic alter) All the problems I did have stemmed from what I was doing - I was creating all these different personalities.”

Persons Two Different Shows Problem Girl Evil Sin Personality Battle Creating Thirds Blame Drunk Twins Satanic This Girl Nina Third Person

Author:Lisa Lopes

“Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.”

Humans Made Stills Two Technology Planets Ocean Thirds Mysterious Made It Covered Mars Gorgeous

Author:Barbara Block

“For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.”

Years Two Different Lasts Next Space Months Six Training Thirds Ships Command Flight Stations Categories Six Months Next Year Rockets Orbit Space Flight

Author:Chris Hadfield

“Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?”

Two House Loses Tomorrow Members Gains Thirds Representatives Garbage Salary Parasites Dumped House Of Representatives

Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION

Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION

“But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.”

Ifs Men Persons Two Different Stories Asks Names Sex Happened Mines He Man Married Thirds Mathematics Every Man Analysis Fifty Splendid Select Maids Third Person Old Maids

Author:Primo Levi

“Two ill meales make the third a glutton.”

Two Thirds Ill

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.”

“I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let people know what really happens and reveal all the secrets and bring certain characters together.”

People Knows Writing Firsts Two Book Character Happens Together Certain Secret Thirds Series Ties Thread

Author:Trudi Canavan

“Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.”

People Stills Two States Fighting United United States Land Percent Thirds Scales Canada Native Australia Indigenous Mining Aboriginal Uranium Uranium Mining

Author:Winona LaDuke

“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process”

“I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with In the Valley of Elah. I said, "Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax." And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery.”

Way Said Two Mystery Okay Thirds Murder Broke Genre Relax Valleys Conventions Murder Mysteries

Author:Paul Haggis

“The Twitch community loves watching video games, chatting, and broadcasting. The average viewer watches over an hour and a half of video each day. Over two-thirds of our logged-in users chat each day.”

Two Games Community Hours Half Watches Thirds Average Video Each Day Users Viewers Broadcasting Chatting

Author:Emmett Shear

“[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.”

People Two States Atheism Ready Thirds Constitution Positive Atheism Throat

Author:Anne Royall

“I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.”

Made Two States Government Politics Clear Authority Solutions Thirds Made It Ireland Sovereignty Joints Unified Iron Lady Confederation

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“I never liked bananas much anyway. Two-thirds of the way down even one banana I am willing to concede defeat smilingly and give the rest to the nearest monkey.”

Way Giving Two Willing Eating Thirds Defeat Monkeys Bananas

Book:My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

Source: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

“It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.”

People Firsts Two Done Moments Seems Enjoy Company Elements Thirds Remove Introducing Hostesses

Author:Virginia Graham

“Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery.... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors--neutral gray.”

Art Made Two Together Law Understanding Identity Color Prove Thirds Vices Contentment Gray Dread Proven Adultery Mockery Prove It Desolate Merging

Author:Alexander Theroux

“Where one is present, God is the second, and where there are two, God is the third.”

Two Thirds

Author:Nazr Mohammed

“Each album has a different atmosphere. The third album and Houses of the Holy seem to be the two albums that people didn't get off on quite as strongly as the other ones. But I think they contain the basic ingredients for the further pursuance of what we're doing... the turning point to relieve the tedium of repetition.”

People Thinking Two Different Seems House Holy Thirds Albums Atmosphere Ingredients Repetition Turning Points Tedium

Author:Robert Plant

“Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious council. It's the only place in the world where the last six elections have been won by the more progressive candidate, two for president, two for the mayors, two for the parliament. So most people there are sympathetic to the world we Americans want to build, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. On the other hand, almost everybody there wants them to have nuclear power. They see it as a status symbol, and a sense of their own security.”

“I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end.”

Feels Two Book Ends Happens Lasts Reading Pleasure Half Duty Pages Thirds Enormous Good Book

Author:Jackie French

“I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere.”

Should Two Thirds Surface Spheres Imaginary Angle Proposal Triangles

Author:Johann Heinrich Lambert

“Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day.... Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.”

“Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.”

Two War Ends Son Holy Thirds Philosophical Holiness Pastor Puritan Holy War

Author:H. L. Mencken

“A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.”

Heart Two Reason Mistake Trouble Thirds

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.”

“We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.”

Two Ideas Values Thirds Investing Selling Buying

Author:Walter Schloss

“'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.”

People Mean Two Government Political Party Dangerous Concepts Fairs Thirds Agree Fairness Political Correctness Despotism Third Parties

Author:Thomas Sowell

“A new study says that over half of all Californians are obese. In fact, half of Californians are really two-thirds of Californians.”

Two Facts Half Study Thirds Obese Californians

Author:Jay Leno

“In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.”

Persons Made Two God Social Party Common Conversation Thirds Third Parties Tacit

Book:Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity

Source: Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity

“The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.”

World Firsts Two Country Form Culture Conflict Thirds Borders Mexico Mexican Third World Two Worlds Merging Grate Scabs Mexican Border

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“And this exclusion of "women's work" continues, despite United Nations data gathered since 1975 (the beginning of the UN Decade for Women) indicating that women globally contribute two-thirds of the world's work hours, for which - given the imbalanced, unjust, and truly peculiar nature of the accounting characteristic of dominator economics - they globally earn only one-tenth of what men do and own a mere one-hundredth of the world's property.”

Men World Two Given Nations Hours United Economics Thirds Property Mere Decades Despite Data Characteristics Peculiar Dishes Unjust United Nations Accounting Exclusion

Author:Riane Eisler

“In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it.”

Said Two Important Lasts Ability Week Internet Protect Thirds Police Phones Partners Preserves Privacy Free Speech Chips Polls Phone Calls Cnn

Author:Philip Elmer-DeWitt

“The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your virginity, third time's the charm.”

Firsts Mean Two Mother Losing Thirds Bars Charm Virginity Exam Third Time Bar Exam Losing Your Virginity

Author:Jimmy McGill

“If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.”

Ifs Two Use Problem Care Cases Childhood Cost Percent Thirds Medical Primaries Expenses Curves Competitors Comprehensive Obesity Reconcile Charging Childhood Obesity Primary Care

Author:William J. Clinton

“I live in the land of delight - of just walking in the street, and the sun is shining, and I'm on my way to Starbucks and I'm feeling good. I also live for those aha! moments when you understand something new, when you see two things fitting together to make a surprising third. There's actually a chemical that's produced in the brain by learning that gives you that little ecstatic moment of, Oh, that's why.”

“Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.”

“I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!"”

Way Trying Two Ends Humor Funny Hate Lines Thirds I Hate Arrows Triangles

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“"Free markets" is a very general term. There are all sorts of problems that will emerge. Free markets work best when the transaction between two individuals affects only those individuals. Most often, a transaction between you and me affects a third party. That is the source of all problems for government. That is the source of all pollution problems, of the inequality problem. This reality ensures that the end of history will never come.”

Two Ends Problem Reality Government Individual Term Party Source Thirds Inequality Pollution Free Market Transactions Third Parties Between You And Me

Author:Milton Friedman

“I like "Rock, Paper, Scissors Two-Thirds." You know. "Rock breaks scissors." "These scissors are bent. They're destroyed. I can't cut stuff. So I lose." "Scissors cuts paper." "These are strips. This is not even paper. It's gonna take me forever to put this back together." "Paper covers rock." "Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks." There should be "Rock, Dynamite with a Cutable Wick, Scissors."”

Knows Should I Can Two Humor Funny Together Stuff Loses Break Forever Cutting Rocks Fine Paper Thirds Destroyed Damage Take Me Bent Break Through Back Together Dynamite Scissors

Author:Demetri Martin

“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.”

Art Two Government Nations Pay Benefits Thirds

Author:Voltaire

“Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.”

People Men Two Hours White Crazy Republican Thirds Addresses

Author:Bernie Sanders

“In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.”

“Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.”

Years Two Middle Thirds Pacific

Author:Michael Emerson

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