Thirds Quotes

• Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Beach, Nature

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.152, 谷月社

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• God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Firsts, Immortality

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• 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

  Motivational, Time, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• 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

  Two, Special, Half

  "Wrestling Life Into Fable". The Academy of Achievement Interview in New York City, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2005.

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  The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wedding

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.118, Broadway Books

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• Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

  Will Rogers

  Practice, Two, Communism

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• 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

  Two, United States, Louisiana

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  Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  "Henry James: A Life". Book by Leon Edel. Volume 5: "The Master 1901-1916", 1972.

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  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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• For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Spring, Idols

  Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

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• 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

  Two, Three, Idiot

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• 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

  Work, Two, Poverty

  Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”

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• One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

  Will Rogers

  Two, People, United States

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.167, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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

  Mean, Science, Two

  Speech to American Bar Association, Atlanta, Ga., 22 Oct. 1964

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• Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.

  Ralph Kiner

  Two, Water, Earth

  "Ralph Kiner, New York Mets Broadcaster, Dies at 91" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 6, 2014.

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• 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

  Country, Government, Two

  The Amnesty International Annual Report (p. 22), 2002.

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• A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

  Robert Breault

  Vacation, Aggravation, Two

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• 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

  Mean, Years, Two

  Hans Jürgen Eysenck, Glenn Daniel Wilson (1973). “The experimental study of Freudian theories”, Methuen Publishing

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• While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

  Dean Rusk

  Sleep, Two, World

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• Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Two, Water, Auditors

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• To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Mistake, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 20, 2016

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• Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hate, Shopping, Two

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby

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• To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

  John Ruskin

  Clever, Two, Answering Questions

  John Ruskin (1875). “Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which My Father Knew”, p.186

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• I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

  John Green

  Family, School, Years

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

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