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• Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

  Maya Rudolph

  Men, Doubt, Comedy

  Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

  Olivia Colman

  Girl, Classic, Harder

  "'I'm lucky I'm not a pin-up': ITV's Broadchurch star Olivia Colman's own battle" by Halina Watts, www.mirror.co.uk. March 23, 2013.

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• Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Expression

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• But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

  Jenny Offill

  Fun, Getting Older, Seems

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.77, Granta Books

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• In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.

  Gary Taubes

  Today, Percentages, 1960s

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• No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow to the emotional quality of their lives. Its gravity has not been calculated. They have far fewer reliable links than women to the classic currents of family life. They are alienated not only, as Marx said, from the means of production but also from the means of reproduction.

  Lionel Tiger

  Mean, Men, Emotional

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• When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

  Andy Rooney

  Education, School, Things In Life

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• The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Soul, Gold

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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• We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Population, Entering, Phases

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• If you have only a little capital and are young today, there are fewer opportunities than when I was young. Back then, we had just come out of a depression. Capitalism was a bad word. There had been abuses in the 1920s. A joke going around then was the guy who said, 'I bought stock for my old age and it worked - in six months, I feel like an old man!' "It's tougher for you, but that doesn't mean you won't do well - it just may take more time. But what the heck, you may live longer."

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, Opportunity, Men

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• The villain is always more entertaining because he has fewer limitations. The hero is bound by honor, by justice and by the law, sometimes.

  Len Wein

  Hero, Law, Justice

  Source: collider.com

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• I would like to see fewer actors modeling, or if they're going to model to the extent that they are modeling, then I think that models should be actors.

  Stephanie Seymour

  Thinking, Actors, Should

  Interview magazine, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, services, or money from the government without earning them. The onlookers easily adopt an attitude that they, too, are entitled to such transfers. They have fewer examples of hardworking, self-reliant people in their families or neighborhoods.

  Robert Higgs

  Children, Attitude, Government

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• Genes which allow females to be less inhibited leave fewer copies of themselves than genes which persuade them to remain highly selective. Among males, the best strategy is exactly the opposite one. The maximum advantage goes to those males with the fewest inhibitions. "Love 'em and leave 'em" is not so much a nasty peice of male chauvinist piggery as an accurate reflection of biological reality.

  Lyall Watson

  Reflection, Reality, Opposites

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• As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.

  J. A. Jance

  J. A. Jance, Judith A. Jance (1995). “Three Complete Novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Trying, Can Do

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.183, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!

  Henry Hazlitt

  Law, Liberty, Needs

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.216, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.

  Deborah

  Regret, Want, Where You Are

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• What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

  Abraham Verghese

  Book, Men, Clothes

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• I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

  Christine Lagarde

  Fields, Scientist, Economist

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• The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's live better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity. Businesses that do this through voluntary exchanges not only benefit through increased profits, they bring better and more competitively priced goods and services to market. This creates a win-win situation customers and companies alike.

  Charles Koch

  Integrity, Winning, People

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• The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Artist, Chance, Limitation

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• If you are self-motivated, wow, this world is tailored for you. The boundaries are all gone. But if you're not self-motivated, this world will be a challenge because the walls, ceilings and floors that protected people are also disappearing. That is what I mean when I say "it is a 401(k) world." Government will do less for you. Companies will do less for you. Unions can do less for you. There will be fewer limits, but also fewer guarantees. Your specific contribution will define your specific benefits much more. Just showing up will not cut it.

  Thomas Friedman

  Wall, Mean, Cutting

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• Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

  Luke Treadaway

  Growing Up, Small Villages, Oppression

  "Luke Treadaway: Hello aliens, fancy a spliff?". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

  Bill Gates

  Impact, Sharks, Years

  "The Deadliest Animal in the World" by Bill Gates, www.gatesnotes.com. April 25, 2014.

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