Quotes with thirds

  • 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.

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  • Ambrose Bierce A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Will Rogers Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Barbara Block 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.
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  • Albert Einstein I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Michael Ondaatje 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.
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Arthur Hiller So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Aldous Huxley Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bernie Sanders Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Barry McCaffrey We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abraham Lincoln When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • 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.
    The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91
    Barber Conable
    American politician (1922 - 2003)
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  • Ambrose Bierce The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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