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While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in. -- Dean Rusk
In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land. -- Mo Ibrahim
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
In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path. -- Ahmed Ben Bella
If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who is caught in between two worlds. -- Greg Poehler
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
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. -- Barber Conable
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something. -- Dean Rusk
Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population! -- Neale Donald Walsch
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. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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
The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party. -- Ridley Scott
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
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. -- Chris Froome
Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. -- David Cameron
My earliest memories of Gwyneth first singing is in bed when we would make up songs. The most I could do was harmonize, like, a third above, and at two years old, she'd be doing sixths. I said, 'Where in the world did that come from?' She'd just make up songs. -- Blythe Danner
While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives. -- Hans Rosling
It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world. -- Simon Mainwaring
The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre. -- Henry Miller
We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. -- Jimmy Carter
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Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money. -- J. C. Ryle
Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. -- Herman Melville
The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies. -- Dick Cheney
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
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
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

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