#thirds

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

#harmony #how #much #sing #thirds

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

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#covered #earth #headquarters #other #surface

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

#atomic bomb #believe #bomb #civilization #earth

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

#extent #group #illness #improve #marked

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

#ali #come #decided #doctor #had

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

#behind #doubled #federal #federal level #last

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease. ↗

— Larry Niven

#aids #along #childhood #come #disease

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

— Will Rogers

#other #people #promote #provide #states

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

#banned #being #carried #committed #countries

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

#diet #excercise #hunger #obesity #poverty