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Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. -- Will Rogers
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide. -- Will Rogers
Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it. -- Bernard Levin
I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people. -- Woody Guthrie
I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.' -- Wole Soyinka
Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program. -- Joe Baca
One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. -- Alvar N. C. de Vaca
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. -- Tommy Lasorda
Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s. -- Linda Chavez
People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope. -- Michelle Bachelet
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
One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others. -- Bill Dedman
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel. -- David Novak
One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil! -- Terry McAuliffe
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office. -- Edmund White
The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it. -- Thomas Pogge
One-third of all female infertility is the result of blocked fallopian tubes. If fertilization could be done in the lab and then the fertilized egg implanted in the womb, it would get around that problem. Millions of women who cannot have children would suddenly be able to. -- James D. Watson
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations. -- Amar Bose
In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake. -- Nolan Bushnell
We can still do a stop motion feature for about one-third of what it costs Pixar or DreamWorks or Blue Sky to make a feature. But nobody is interested in a film that cost $50 to 60 million with the potential to do $120 million. They want to risk big money to make huge money. -- Henry Selick
Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified aerial phenomena. Surveys show that roughly one-third of the populace believes that at least some of this sky show is due to extraterrestrial spacecraft, here to probe our airspace and, when that proves boring, our bodies. -- Seth Shostak
I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country. -- Jeff Sessions
I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal. -- Tom Peters
In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world. -- Christien Meindertsma
Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third -- Angelina Jolie
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. -- L.M. Montgomery
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. -- L.M. Montgomery
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams. -- George Allen
I will cut all state taxes by at least one third. -- Sonny Landham
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person. -- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about. -- Brandon Jacobs
U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation -- Henry A. Kissinger
The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre. -- Henry Miller
Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work. -- Katherine Anne Porter
I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell. -- Zell Miller
A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. -- Robert Breault
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. -- Alan Perlis
We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. -- Jimmy Carter
One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors. -- Rupert Grint
One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike. -- Robert Frost
Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart. -- Damon Runyon
Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one. -- Jim Hightower
You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own. -- Connie Mack
I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning. -- Robert Kennedy
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I was in Graham's office the day he bought GEICO. Warren owns one-third of the stock today. -- Walter Schloss
One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country. -- Joe Slovo
Where one is present, God is the second, and where there are two, God is the third. -- Nazr Mohammed
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry. -- Huston Smith
That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. -- Jorge Luis Borges
One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine. -- Mira Grant
There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third! -- Louis St. Laurent
I would do away with Education, Commerce, and let's see - the third one I can't. I can't. Oops. -- Rick Perry
Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons. -- H. L. Mencken
10:38 AM - Third period. Kaylee has no class this period. I have no one to kill. Coincidence, or fate? -- Rachel Vincent
The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one. -- Ethan Embry
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. -- Chuck Palahniuk
When two wise men are blaming one another,then time has come for you to be the third one. -- Toba Beta
And people is the most important part of my job. I spend one third of my time on people. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains. -- Scott Lynch
Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income. -- Bernie Sanders
Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section. -- Dan Jenkins
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius. -- John Green
Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. -- Joseph Epstein
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty. -- Fidel Castro
What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. -- Peter Singer
Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it's about finding him; he comes in in the third act. -- Ridley Scott
One final glance back at the hotel. Philias Switchmoat the Third, stepping from the curb and in to a puddle. Disappeared. -- Stephen J. Day
There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals. -- Ralph Borsodi
A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person. -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel. -- Benjamin Franklin
You rarely think about just throwing to third base to get one out. That's probably the industry's fault with all of that. -- Joe Maddon
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them. -- Plato
If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one. -- Colin Firth
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. -- Gerald Durrell
In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different. -- David Walton
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross. -- Zack Snyder
When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done. -- Manfred von Richthofen
In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper. -- John Motson
Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion. -- Zadie Smith
...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life. -- R. A. Salvatore
The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue. -- Hilaire Belloc
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. -- Salman Rushdie
Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one. -- Sarah Waters
Law Number V: One-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person. -- Chris Wooding
Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing. -- Robert Scoble
I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty. -- Summer Altice
Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over. -- Junot Diaz
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. -- Thomas Huxley
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'. -- Sarah Waters
It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed. -- Benjamin Graham
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts. -- James Fitzjames Stephen
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
How did they know that I was the one who saved them?" "They don't. You're the third knight they've celebrated over since it happened. -- Gerald Morris
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it -- Jules Henry
One-third of your plays are special teams, so to block a punt and get good field position out of it and score was big. -- Frank Knight
There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third. -- John Marsden
I've had bad luck with all my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. The third gave me more children! -- Donald Trump
Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not. -- Don Frye
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one. -- Gary Ackerman
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far. -- Robert Browning
We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need. -- Jan Egeland
One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever. -- David Sills
To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth. -- Philip Larkin
Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction, -- Pope Francis
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself. -- H. H. Asquith
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
According to Time magazine, global warming is 33% worse than we thought. You know what that means? Al Gore is one-third more annoying than we thought. -- Jay Leno

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