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“Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.”

“Film is a two dimensional thing - it goes up and down and left to right but if you put that music into that two dimensional medium, it became like a third, fourth, and fifth dimension, I really believe in that.”

Ifs Believe Two Film Left Thirds Down And Mediums Dimensions Fourth Fifth Up And Down

Author:Fatih Ak?n

“The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.”

Firsts Two Used Three Stupid Computer Majors Program Thirds Digital Attributes Accurate Disguise

Author:P. J. Plauger

“I think that as human beings we are all different. On a third dimensional level we're all different but there are two things we share in common... one is birth, and we know about that because we've been through it, we understand it, and the other is death.”

Thinking Knows Humans Two Different Human Beings Levels Common Share Birth Thirds Two Things

Author:James Van Praagh

“Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.”

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Author:Kamala Harris

“Before MTV, if you put out an album that sold 50,000 copies, your band could afford not to have day jobs for a while. That meant you could stick around, put out another album or two. Maybe it would be the second or third album where you'd make the statement you'd been trying to make all along.”

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Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.”

Two Individual Understanding Water Animal Alive Mystery Masters Speech Thirds Remove Sublime Oxygen Explaining Mute Trinity Hydrogen Recapitulation

Author:Mark Twain

“Two thirds of federal disaster aid is weather related,and though we cannot prevent bad weather, we are getting better at predicting it. The Commerce Department's NDRI will help save lives and protect property. We will be working closely with FEMA, the Interior Department and other federal agencies, with state and local governments and with our nation's businesses.”

“[A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. ...the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013”

Two Wealth Source Majors Percent Thirds Including Financial Fund Mutual Assets Household Pension Mutual Fund

Author:Janet Yellen

“Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.”

Art Two Space Break Records Pages Thirds Defects Offence Literary Art

Book:Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

Source: Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

“English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.”

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Author:Karl Marx

“If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to my left. That's why those statistics aren't accurate. You're changing for every batter, sometimes with every pitch. You really can't make one statistic for every shortstop. You have to go by what you see.”

People Ifs Two Sometimes Left Steps Middle Thirds Balls Range Statistics Accurate Shortstops

Author:Derek Jeter

“I am not personally a parent. But I do have two godchildren and am expecting a third. I am naturally concerned for their future. If I ruled the world you could bet your boots that none of them would ever set their eyes on any such contraptions as digital clocks and pocket calculators. But alas, I do not rule the world and that, I am afraid, is the story of my life - always a godmother, never a God.”

Ifs World Two Stories Eye Parent Concerned Thirds Clock Pockets Digital Boots Expecting Alas Story Of My Life Godmother Calculators

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.”

People Two Government Social Realizing Company Security Thirds Army Budgets Social Security Medicare Pentagon Insurance Companies Medicaid

Author:Scott Pelley

“About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.”

Men World Made Two Happens Faces Impossible Exercise Normal Thirds Beard Solemn Thrust

Book:H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office.”

Two Moments Body House Given Results Serious Office Thirds Majority Conviction Representatives Offense Accused Removal House Of Representatives

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.”

World Children Two Support Highest Thirds Alimony

Author:Burt Reynolds

“Meanwhile, the chemical industry has mounted an aggressive campaign to discredit organic food. And without the knowledge or consent of most Americans, two-thirds of the products on our supermarket shelves now contain genetically engineered ingredients.”

Two Products Industry Thirds Campaigns Ingredients Chemicals Aggressive Consent Shelves Supermarkets Discredit Organic Food

Book:The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

Source: The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

“Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.”

Two Problem Lasts Law Numbers Cost Percent Performances Thirds

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“The first joke I got on the air I remember clearly. Dennis McNicholas and Robert Carlock wrote a sketch where they were evacuating the Titanic, and the last two guys on the entire ship were the two black guys, Samuel L. Jackson and Tracy Morgan. So Will Ferrell was running back and forth, saying, "All first-class passengers get in the lifeboat. All second-class passengers and third-class passengers get in the lifeboat. Let's get all the animals in the lifeboat. Let's put all the empty luggage in the lifeboat."”

“Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.”

“[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.”

“Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.”

Two Would Be Film Thousand Thirds Assuming Colour Exposed Venture Ruined Spoiled Loaded Cassettes Cartier Monochrome

Author:Philip Jones Griffiths

“When I'm getting ready to persuade a person, I spend one-third of the time thinking about myself, what I'm going to say, and two-thirds of the time thinking about him and what he is going to say. -Abraham Lincoln Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will be.”

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Author:Emile Coue

“Transcendence implies the surpassing of two things, and the consequent attainment of a third thing. But there are no 'things' in reality, of any kind whatever: there is only the thing-in-itself, its suchness, which is Reality, revealed when the illusory dualism of inexistent qualities is dissolved.”

Kind Two Reality Quality Thirds Two Things Transcendence Attainment Illusory Dualism Surpassing

Author:Wei Wu Wei

“Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local clinics before they can see a specialist. The clinics have security guards to keep patients from getting unruly as they wait hours to see a doctor. The guards also prevent new patients from entering the clinic when the waiting room is considered full. Uppsala, a city with 200,000 people, has only one specialist in mammography. Sweden's National Cancer Foundation reports that in a few years most Swedish women will not have access to mammography.”

Source: American Contempt for Liberty

“If you consider that the gender roles are just political, then what you come to see is that the full circle of human qualities is divided up so that two-thirds are masculine and one-third is feminine. Women are missing more of their human qualities, so you'll find us on the fore-front of trying to change this.”

Ifs Trying Humans Two Political Quality Roles Missing Fronts Thirds Gender Circles Feminine Divided Masculine Gender Roles Trying To Change Human Qualities Full Circle

Author:Gloria Steinem

“More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.”

Kind Two Half Special Talent Thirds Strikes Unusual Stamina Rewriting

Author:John Irving

“Doubt, fear and regret are the three villains of success. If you close the door on the first two, you will never have to worry about meeting the third.”

Ifs Firsts Two Three Worry Doubt Doors Regret Thirds Meetings Villain

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us.”

Thinking Two Philosophy Political Left Term Rooms Common Economic Unique Thirds Bottom Corners Libertarianism Spectrum Triangles Left And Right Political Spectrum

Author:Walter Block

“What in the world had Grover Cleveland done? Will you tell me? You give it up? I have been looking for six weeks for a Democrat who could tell me what Cleveland has done for the good of his country and for the benefit of the people, but I have not found him.... He says himself...that two-thirds of his time has been uselessly spent with Democrats who want office.... Now he has been so occupied in that way that he has not done anything else.”

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Author:William McKinley

“People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me - and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations - nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit ... asked for blintzes.”

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Author:Dick Gregory

“Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.”

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Author:Richard Jeni

“I had the opportunity to work with Aliens and Predators when Resident Evil 2 was being made and it was for two different studios. It was for Fox and Sony. They don't care about one another. They just want their movies. So it was very difficult to delay one and... So I had to make a very painful decision to kind of step away from directing the second movie and with the third movie it was the same.”

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Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

“If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody's property or take anybody's money. You found life a lot tougher.”

Ifs Way Years Children Two Kids Young Found Thirds Property Refuse Stealing Welfare

Author:Barry White

“There's no excuse for domestic violence. It sounds like a challenge. I mean, does everything have to be so black-and-white in this kindergarten country of ours? What if you come home from a long day at work and your wife has drowned two of your kids - she's about to dunk the third one. Can you run over and pop her then? Unfortunately no, there's no excuse. You're going to have to let her drown that third one.”

“Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.”

Thinking World Two Real Country Eye Age Wanted Young My Own Decision Growing Up Growing Feet Taught Thirds Real World Young Age Third World Kenya Third World Countries

Author:Chris Froome

“No. It is not acceptable that the 6 largest financial institutions in this country have assets of almost 10 trillion dollars, and issue half of the mortgages and two-thirds of the credit cards. That is too much wealth and power in the hands of a few. If Teddy Roosevelt were alive today he'd tell us to 'break them up.' And he'd be right. These huge banks must be broken up.”

“Photography has always been capable of manipulation. Even more subtle and more invidious is the fact that any time you put a frame to the world, it's an interpretation. I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. There's an infinite number of ways you can do this: photographs have always been authored.”

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Author:Joel Sternfeld

“I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.”

Men Trying Two Happens Song Causes Five Written Minutes Havens Hero Calling Angel Thirds Ruins Piano Old Man Bites Five Minutes

Author:Francis Dunnery

“I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.”

Knows Way Mean Two Book Ideas Ends Know How Thirds No Idea Outlines

Author:Tom Robbins

“I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.”

Thinking Writing Trying Two Hands Reader Thirds Hand In Hand Precision

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“The number one killer of children in Rwanda is malaria. Since the United States of America stood up and working with Rwandans, we have been able to cut those deaths by two-thirds.”

Children Has Beens Two States Able America United Numbers United States Cutting Thirds Killers United States Of America Stood Up Malaria Rwanda

Author:Bill Frist

“You see, my friends...you begin to ask the questions, 'Who owns the oil?' You begin to ask the question, 'Who owns the iron ore?' You begin to ask the question, 'Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?'”

People World Two Asks Water Pay My Friends Thirds Bills Oil Iron Iron Ore

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“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

“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.”

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Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“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.”

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Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“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.”