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 religous or political ideas.
Aldous Huxley
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A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.
Charles Reade
The new text substantially advances the discussion and gives a good basis to achieve a stronger human rights council, assuming there is a decision to have members of the council elected by a two-thirds majority.
Peggy Hicks
Two-thirds of our clients are dual-income families . . . it's a matter of time, stress, disposable income.
Mark Richardson
This is a long way off, equivalent to two thirds of the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
Horst Uwe Keller
I was hunting (for a hotel chain) which continually changes and upgrades its standards as the industry changes. We won't use the Days Inn name until we're finished (with the renovations). But we're about two-thirds of the way through.
Joseph Keyes
Right now, we are playing with less than two-thirds of the team.
Francis Borrego
Overall we think its a significant advance and contains the elements necessary for a stronger council but the key will be achieving the two-thirds vote for election of council members. Without the two-thirds vote, the risk is that the worst abusers will continue to be elected.
Peggy Hicks
If you look at the Harris poll, two-thirds of them really don't know what they're doing. About one-third does, but two-thirds don't.
Bo Schembechler
It's time for concerned citizens to rise up and remove George W. Bush from office. Two-thirds of the American people agree he's taking our country in the wrong direction. It's come down to Bush -- or the Constitution. We hope Americans everywhere will join us to defend our Constitution.
Kent Smith
Two-thirds of the fatalities involving alcohol take place at a blood-alcohol level of .14 or higher. But we've seen the legal limit lowered from .10 to .08, even in the face of this data.
Radley Balko
Approximately two-thirds of East Ship was lost to the storm.
Jim Graves
Lung cancer is treatable if it's caught early. The best treatment for lung cancer is surgery. If it is not caught early, as it is, unfortunately, in two-thirds of patients, we have made some progress in terms of the use of chemotherapy ... and radiation.
Jay Brooks
Two-thirds of our patients are the elderly who are on Medicare and fixed incomes.
Tom Ferrara
It's not a girlie luncheon. A lot of husbands and wives came together, but of 245 guests, about two-thirds are men.
Susan Reynolds
The online gaming market is currently climbing a large growth curve and the advantage 888 has over PartyGaming is that its business is more diverse, with two-thirds of its income derived from casino games, especially roulette and blackjack.
Richard Hunter
We are a racially structured country, one-thirds to two-thirds of African Americans are born into poverty. They are at a distinct disadvantage from the outset, and the divide between the rich and the poor only continues to grow.
Ralph Leck
This commission is going to have two-thirds congressional membership. It is going to be up to us to make it work. Give it a chance.
Sander Levin
We often undervalue what we have. We regularly have two-thirds of our space dedicated to visiting exhibitions, which means we hardly get a chance to show our own collection.
Timothy Potts
I really want all of the complexities of the two bonds, and how each impacts the taxpayer, to be really clear to us. When we make that decision [about ballot language] I don't want it to be based on the vote we think we can get, I want it to be based on facts, because we were so close with the two-thirds bond [Measure K]. There are a lot of factors that we have to really closely study.
Linda Clark
Without the two-thirds vote, the risk is that the worst abusers will continue to be elected.
Peggy Hicks
While roughly two-thirds of [U.S. diversified equity] portfolios are managed by more than one person, starting last February, they can no longer say 'team managed.' They have to name the people managing the fund.
Don Cassidy
Hygiene is two thirds of health.
Lebanese Proverb
It's useful to remember where we were in 2003 with liberation. In 2003, Iraq had the highest debt ... as a share of gross domestic product in the world. And today about two-thirds of that debt has been written off as a result of the support by the international community.
Ambassador Daniel Speckhard
While at lot of focus has been placed on the school kitchen, if the message is not backed up by a healthy, balanced diet at home, providing two-thirds of a child's dietary requirements, we will not win the battle against dietary related ill-health.
Jenny Morris
This year, we've got already two-thirds of our snowfall from what we got last year. Of course, we lost it all.
Mary Nelson
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
It means a rough two and two-thirds months.
Karen Bell
The bottom line is that, when you start taking a look at the accounting differences, it comes down to we're about $117 million higher than Consumers and about two-thirds of that can be attributable to health care and pension benefits.
Lorie Kessler
We will hear the pros and cons of the two-thirds approach and the Proposition 39 approach. Bruce will share with us why there is a difference in the bonding capacity of the two types of bonds.
Linda Clark
The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce
Honda's decision to equip the Odyssey with the largest screen available is a hit with consumers, ... Given that almost two-thirds of consumers in the study are willing to pay for a larger screen size, we expect to see others following Honda's lead.
Lawrence Wu
The average House loss in the mid-term for the president's party is 30 seats, and the president's party on average has lost Senate seats in the last two-thirds of 22 elections.
Mary Matalin
We use two-thirds water, one-third semi-skimmed milk and cook for 40 minutes on a slow heat. Slow soaking and cooking of organic oats soften the mix.
Anthony Stone
In my opinion he's one of the best thirds in the world. For him to have a game like this, it basically puts him on the map, no questions asked. I'm so proud of him. I've seen him probably play a better super league game back home at the club, but to play it in the Olympics, with millions of people watching, you couldn't ask for a better game than that.
Jamie Korab
Two-thirds of families admitted they had difficulty trying to accommodate everyone's tastes when planning a summer break.
Rachel Johnson
If we stay with the two-thirds bond [in June], property taxpayers would not have their taxes increase, but it would extend the length of the bond.
Linda Clark
Two-thirds of what we call New Orleans culture is really myth-making, ... People feed myths of the city back to the city. These myths are now in pieces.
Andrei Codrescu
We've seen a sea change, a real shift over the past generation from a system where less than half of students left with debt and now two-thirds leave with debt. Now, it's become the norm to leave with debt -- and often with a lot of debt.
Robert Shireman
He's having a real solid year. He's probably why, through the first two-thirds of the year, we were able to stay close and be in the playoff hunt.
Dean Clark
I'm not going to do anything until it's at least two-thirds full.
George Horton
Two-thirds of government employees work in education, public safety, corrections or are judges. You don't want high turnover in those professions, so you need benefits that encourage long-term retention.
Keith Brainard
I think it's going to be close, ... Two-thirds, though, is a lot of votes. I wouldn't say I'm confident by any stretch of the imagination. I do feel like it has a lot of support statewide.
John Proctor
We're just looking forward to it. It's a big event for us each year. Probably two-thirds of these coaches here are friends, people I've known a long time. It's like a reunion for me every year. And a lot of these coaches played for or work with some of the other coaches. So it's just a good time where everybody gets back together again.
Mark Cooke
Two thirds of this was put up in the rain.
Chris Graves
With two-thirds of revenue derived from the highly volatile personal digital entertainment segment, we anticipate Creative will need to take further restructuring charges to right-size its operations.
Patrick Yau
We really work as a team. We're not finishing first, (but) we're finishing second and third and that has an impact. … That's what is going to decide the (sectional) meet is getting those seconds or thirds. I think if we get two or three guys in the final heats we'll have a really good chance.
Jon Isca
Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.
Norman R. Augustine
If we can get two-thirds of our product development at one-fourth the cost, we come close to cutting our overall costs in half, ... Put another way, if I have 25 cents of every dollar this company takes in to spend on product development, getting more engineers working is how we can develop faster and how we win.
Dwight Decker
I believe that there will be a very substantial, perhaps even a two-thirds majority, for constitutional change and the modernization of our system of government in the next Parliament.
Paddy Ashdown
The process included both qualitative research and a formal quantitative telephone survey of Mighty Ducks season ticket holders. While there was support for keeping the current name, the majority of those surveyed, nearly two-thirds, supported some sort of name change.
David Paine
[There's a reason why politicians are telling the American people to do the right thing and get to the mall.] Consumer spending is the 800-pound gorilla when you're talking about the economy, ... It's two-thirds of the economy.
Josh Feinman
I'm sure there are shops out there making the effort. I'm sure a lot are doing the bare minimum. Probably two-thirds of shops don't care or don't know.
Shawn Lowery
Everyone in the room is looking at the show, versus a football game, where two thirds are kind of watching and a third are only pretending they're interested.
Burke Stinson
It represents two-thirds of our budget. It's a good money make for us.
Jeff Wells
The consensus is still that consumer spending in the U.S. will hold steady. But as it comprises two thirds of the economy, even a small decline would slow down the economic recovery and hurt Japanese exports.
Takashi Miyazaki
We lost about two-thirds of our dune structure on a major part of our beach.
Robert Simpson
On my way out here, I was writing all the way on the plane, ... and as soon as I got to San Diego, I arranged with the symphony to find an old practice room in their basement. It's better than two-thirds completed. I'd say four-fifths.
Dave Brubeck
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
Prince Charles
The plan is to raise one-third of the £750m before the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and two-thirds afterwards. Beijing will get the excitement going - when the flame goes out, it will not be lit again until London.
Dianne Thompson
A (Harris Poll) survey showed that two-thirds of the American people don't know all the words to our national anthem, probably because of cuts in school music programs.
Vanessa Mason
The two biggest contributors to global warming are power plants and motor vehicles. If you deal with them, you deal with more than two-thirds of the problem.
David Doniger
We were missing our attack tonight. We weren't holding the ball very long. It was like we were playing only two-thirds soccer.
Mike Rowan
Over two-thirds of computer breaches are disgruntled employees.
Sandy Goldstein
After the last game of the round robin, we had a practice. He made eight straight runbacks. We've always believed he was one of the great thirds in the world but this game put him on the map. I'm proud of him.
Jamie Korab
They cut the deficit by two-thirds.
Tom Hernandez
When they scored, we had our seconds, thirds and fourths in. It left a bad taste in our mouths, but it doesn't take away from how well our first-teamers played.
Steve Bell
Two-thirds (of SG) is Greek. Two percent is Hispanic. What message does this send?
Jared Hernandez
Perhaps if the governor stopped campaigning for five minutes and started governing, ... he would know that there have been no attempts to revive the [car] tax?. It's also important to remember that no tax increase can go into law without the support of two-thirds of the Legislature and the governor's signature.
Steve Maviglio
To sell county property it takes a two-thirds vote, ... I think to do a lease that is more than 5 years, maybe up to 20 years, it should be through a two-thirds majority by the legislature.
David Waters
This is not a two-thirds cut. We had to restructure the entire system because of the magnitude of the project. This is a $2.2 billion facility. The Navajo Nation never contemplated a project this size.
Frank Maisano
Within a two years, two-thirds of people who pull equity out of their home have the same amount of debt as they had before they consolidated. People think they're saving money but really they're just cashing out, spending it and not adding to the value of their home.
Chris Viale
In a direct fertility testing situation, we can show that two-thirds of smokers have lost some or a lot of their fertilizing capacity.
Lani Burkman
Two-thirds of my listings have had to make price reductions to match the market.
Judy Ramage
Older people are the biggest users of healthcare, occupying almost two thirds of our hospital beds. Yet they continue to be a low priority in both the planning and development of our health service.
Anna Walker
There's no national housing bubble, ... About a third of the markets appear to be overpriced, if that's the definition of a bubble. That means two-thirds are not.
John Burns
We took an existing building and took everything out, including two-thirds of the roof. All that we're left with is four walls and the foundation.
Pastor Amos Dodge
This strong performance reflects higher export prices across almost 80 per cent of all minerals and energy commodities exported, along with increased export volumes for over two thirds.
Brian Fisher
Our second millennium faces the reality of growing poverty in two-thirds of the planet, ... Water is becoming scarce, holes deplete the ozone layer and along with biodiversity, the Amazon is being destroyed. Entire nations are condemned to wander as disinherited immigrants, mortal illnesses hover over humanity, and terrorism lurks.
Alfredo Palacio
We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
Barry Mccaffrey
Our second millennium faces the reality of growing poverty in two-thirds of the planet, ... Entire nations are condemned to wander as disinherited immigrants, mortal illnesses hover over humanity, and terrorism lurks.
Alfredo Palacio
We ran probably two-thirds of the time, ... It was a different game than what Mike Leach does. They like to pass the ball. Texas will have to be very aware of that Saturday.
Spike Dykes
These were three big, important divisional games this weekend. It's a big, big weekend. We're two-thirds of the way there. Now we just want another big effort [today].
Ken Gernander
Because we have already locked in prices for two-thirds of our winter supply, we're expecting customers' bills to be about 15 percent higher than they were last winter.
Nick Stavropoulos
The smaller guy, let's say two-thirds of [O'Neal's] body weight, requires that much less energy to do the same maneuver. It cost more energy at 330 [pounds] to lift the entire body of the ground. He has to work harder per maneuver, per rebound, per fast break. It takes a lot more energy and more demands out of his body.
Arlette Perry
We've got two thirds of the season left and we're trying to make the playoffs. I really think we can.
Tim Bonsant
The wind is out of the sails of inevitability. Two-thirds of the Republicans here are not ready to crown the emperor.
Greg Mueller
Serbia is now facing very difficult circumstances. Children and young people are perhaps the most endangered anywhere in Europe. Two-thirds of the people in Serbia are living at or below the poverty line.
David Bull
About two thirds of Germans say she won't be able to manage unemployment and two thirds say she won't manage the country's financial problems.
Reinhard Schlinkert
Waterhouse will be doing about two-thirds of its trading on-line. So I think that's going to be kind of a key offering, kind of a watershed offering for the month. If it does okay, then I think the Internet correction might have run almost its entire course.
Mark Basham
When you compare the brains of treated and untreated mice, the difference is striking. Silencing BACE1 reduced the number and size of plaques by two thirds within a month, which is incredibly fast.
Oded Singer
When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.
Reed Kroloff
We've sold two thirds of our Steelers T-shirts already. And we've sold 50 or 60 Terrible Towels.
Michele Lenardo
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Laurie Schultz
I feel very sorry for your victims. It will be some small consolation that they can get two thirds of their money back. You are a crook, you are in prison, and that is where you deserve to be.
Gareth Edwards
There are a lot more (empty spots) than you think. Right now, the national TV networks represent one-third of the eyeballs, but they take two-thirds of the ad dollars. That is going to start to change.
Nick Grouf
The earnings story is good and is likely to remain very good, and the economic conditions are likely to remain supportive. It's certainly not going to go straight up beyond this period, but I think we're about two-thirds of the way through this correction.
Charles Blood
One of the threats to PC companies is how the demographics and behaviors of users are changing, ... People are half as likely to use a spreadsheet as they were a few years ago, half as likely to use financial management software, and about two-thirds as likely to use a word processor. The PC is becoming very much an entertainment device.
Eric Schmitt
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