#thirds

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

#benefit #government #make #nation #other

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

#beyond #catholic #christ #christian #christians

Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#arab #every #least #nation #thirds

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

#almost #ants #insects #know #make

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#assets #labor #less #own #percent

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

#also #coast #constructed #contributed #downstream

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet. ↗

— Prince Charles

#covered #globe #i #red #red carpet

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

#earn #income #less #only #own

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

#average #bachelor #borrow #debt #degree

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

#am #getting #going #him #i