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Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma. -- Serge Lang
Roughly 21,000 new brands are introduced worldwide per year, yet history tells us that more than 90% of them are gone from the shelf a year later. -- Martin Lindstrom
All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster. -- Bjarke Ingels
We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the canal. Roughly, please. -- Gordon Korman
Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure. -- Noam Chomsky
There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough. -- Robert Frost
Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems. -- Keith Rabois
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot. -- Jon Meacham
Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness. -- George Orwell
Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become. -- Scott McClellan
Roughly 7 to 8 percent of men in Germany are homosexual. If that is how things remain, our nation will fall to pieces because of that plague. Those who practice homosexuality deprive Germany of the children they owe her. -- Heinrich Himmler
Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts..... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks. -- James Bovard
I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it. -- Randy Pausch
The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80 percent of those surveyed offer bonus programs and 401(k) or profit-sharing plans . . . as they compete for the best and brightest workforce. -- Jerry Jasinowski
Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own. -- Shana Alexander
It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then experimental psychology, and finally on to history. Roughly. These are tendencies, and they tend to distinguish roughly between hard and soft sciences. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Renee Montagne
I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up. -- Ashley Wagner
If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy. -- Ronda Rousey
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports. -- Manmohan Singh
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion. -- William C. Bryant
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods. -- Edward Thorndike
But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects. -- Kenichi Fukui
My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots. -- Terry Pratchett
My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong. -- Margaret Walker
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not. -- Hans Eysenck
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980. -- Barton Gellman
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people. -- Rita Mae Brown
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. -- Giorgio Vasari
In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us. -- Daniel Dennett
When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner. -- Sheri Fink
There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Education Is Sinful' - preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful. -- Muhammadu Buhari
The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren. -- Seth Shostak
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
There are 316 million people in the United States of America. About six million of them watch 'Homeland,' Showtime's thriller about world terror, paranoia, and bipolar disorder. That's about 2 percent of the population; roughly what the guy with the beard running on the Libertarian Party ticket gets when he runs for Congress. -- Stephen Rodrick
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos? -- Seth Shostak
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. -- Nikola Tesla
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century. -- Bjorn Lomborg
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. -- Wade Davis
You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks. -- Keith Rabois
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. -- John Maynard Keynes
It's a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four. -- Jane Lynch
'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.' -- Terry Moore
A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax. -- Bob Frank
We receive love roughly in proportion to our capacity to love. -- Rollo May
Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria. -- Robert Benchley
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. -- Karl Kraus
I had complete freedom. They [Netflix] knew roughly what I was doing. -- Werner Herzog
Don't get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale. -- J. K. Rowling
You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income. -- Gene Perret
Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere. -- Joseph J. Romm
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health. -- William C. Bryant
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. -- Wyndham Lewis
I consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry -- Mike Kalin
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual") -- Miguel de Unamuno
One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions. -- Craig Brown
We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures. -- Steve Inskeep
You should plan ahead, so people know roughly where to start digging to look for you. -- Jarod Kintz
To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider. -- R. C. Sproul
I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something. -- David Levithan
We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly. -- Warren Buffett
For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. -- George W. Bush
The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying. -- Liam Neeson
Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster. -- Jenna Jameson
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses. -- H. G. Wells
The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary. -- Lister Sinclair
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone. -- S. Jay Olshansky
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone. -- S. Jay Olshansky
So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly. -- William Shakespeare
Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background. -- V. S. Naipaul
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. -- William Ralph Inge
Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship. -- Hanya Yanagihara
Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?"This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these people win the Cold War? -- Dave Barry
If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. -- James Lovelock
In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average. -- Ronald J. Sider
Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?This translates roughly to: How the hell did these people win the Cold War? -- Dave Barry
We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on. -- Brian K. Vaughan
I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught. -- John Gurdon
We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that. -- Marty Nemko
Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. -- Elliott Sober
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. -- Aristotle
So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms."I'm not fallen," he said roughly."Then what are you?"He shrugged. "Busted. -- Vicki Pettersson
Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports." -- Manmohan Singh
She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress? -- Ann Brashares
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion. -- William C. Bryant
Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases! -- Lewis Carroll
I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything. -- Lars Peter Hansen
ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void? -- Richard Engel
When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win. -- Bill Bradley
The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness. -- Daniel Gilbert
In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories. -- Vito Fossella
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. -- Douglas Coupland
Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last. -- Maureen Dowd
How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing? -- Larry Page
Tell me to leave," he said roughly."No," I whispered, pressing a gentle kiss to his jawline."Then I'm staying," and his lips consumed mine. -- Alexa Rae
The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality. -- Gary Zukav
Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily. -- Bertrand Russell
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses. -- Charles Stross
In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper. -- Graydon Carter
It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers. -- Edward Said
Where you have 20 people who all share roughly the same educational and life experiences, they're going to come up with the same solutions to the same problems. -- Robert Webb
For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room. -- David Foster Wallace
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. -- Victor Hugo
Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself. -- Robert Galbraith
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If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of something which has not yet been reached. -- Maurice Levy
If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal. -- Ernest Becker
My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co. -- H. G. Bissinger
The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. -- Alan Coren
I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it. -- Astro Teller
My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co. -- H. G. Bissinger

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