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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
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. -- Will Rogers
While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in. -- Dean Rusk
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide. -- Will Rogers
You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote. -- F. W. de Klerk
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets. -- Isabel Allende
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. -- Ambrose Bierce
About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt. -- Arne Duncan
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
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. -- E. O. Wilson
Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families. -- Nathan Deal
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. -- John Breaux
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. -- Olympia Snowe
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity. -- Peter Benenson
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
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. -- John Irving
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
When herding behaviour among investors ramps up, a stock's or index's growth rate can increase faster than exponentially, leading to more herding. This positive feedback brings the system to a tipping point. About two-thirds of the time, a crash results. -- Didier Sornette
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. -- Jimmy Carter
You have 60 countries in the world with a terrorist problem. That's two-thirds of the world. We have this group in Basilan, which is a small island in the far south of the Philippines, and the island itself has a population of - what? - 300,000. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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. -- Winona LaDuke
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We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs. -- Chip Conley
I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese. -- Aaron Schock
I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be. -- Jeff Abbott
Most of My Friends are two-thirds water -- Kelly Link
I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives, -- Chesley Sullenberger
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
Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest. -- Deion Sanders
Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work. -- Katherine Anne Porter
The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre. -- Henry Miller
Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third. -- Woody Allen
A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten. -- Robert Breault
Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time. -- Paul Weyrich
A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone. -- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet. -- Prince Charles
We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. -- Jimmy Carter
The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant. -- Pete Rose
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. -- Mignon McLaughlin
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Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox. -- Ralph Kiner
A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. -- Aldous Huxley
Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money. -- J. C. Ryle
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. -- John Ruskin
We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital. -- Walter Schloss
The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together -- Paul Keating
The IEA forecasts that production from oilfields, which have started production up to 2011, will nearly drop two-thirds by 2035. -- Peter Voser
Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface. -- Haruki Murakami
In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land. -- Mo Ibrahim
Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. -- Herman Melville
Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific. -- Michael Emerson
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
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
The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies. -- Dick Cheney
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present -- Jean Paul
In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled. -- Elizabeth Kolbert
Two-thirds of Americans believe that, after a baby's heart is beating and they can feel pain, that they need some protection. -- Barack Obama
You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask. -- Robert Breault
When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion. -- Zadie Smith
Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day. -- John Bracken
A new study says that over half of all Californians are obese. In fact, half of Californians are really two-thirds of Californians. -- Jay Leno
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent. -- Robert Breault
I want us to do more to help small business. That's where two- thirds of the new jobs are going to come from. -- Hillary Clinton
We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be. -- Paul Samuelson
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. -- William Tapley Bennett Jr.
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. -- Voltaire
How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony. -- Paul Simon
[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. -- Anne Royall
One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere. -- Dean Rusk
It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side. -- John Gierach
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
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. -- Bernie Sanders
Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness. -- Edward Abbey
In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money. -- Tina Brown
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!" -- Mitch Hedberg
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. -- Robert Benchley
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. -- Scott Pelley
So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them? -- Wess Stafford
I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do. -- Ben Sollee
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. -- Abraham Lincoln
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
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. -- Karen DeCrow
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. -- Bill Frist
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. -- Karen DeCrow
[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 -- Janet Yellen
Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks. -- Peter S. Prescott
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. -- Emmett Shear
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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. -- H. L. Mencken
Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own. -- Alan Arkin
I have always done what I thought was best for my country, never varying unless I was advised that two-thirds of the Democrats were for a bill and then I voted for it. -- John Nance Garner
For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees. -- Nick Offerman
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. -- Barbara Block
My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It's a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that's almost two-thirds the length of its entire body. -- Kesha
Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth. -- Vandana Shiva
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. -- Tom Robbins
A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it. -- Charles Baudelaire
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march. -- Elbert Hubbard
I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement of two-thirds of the members of the United States Senate. -- John Jay Hooker
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. -- John Robbins

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