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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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• There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence?

  Max Blumenthal

  Engineering, Cities, Violence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I worked probably fewer jobs than most people, or fewer real soul-killing jobs than other people. I've been a typist, a typesetter, a keyliner, cappuccino-maker. I think I've been pretty lucky.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 'Fantasy' is one of the fewer tracks where it's more literal than most of our things, but at the same time it's totally open-ended. Clearly it's a song about things not really appearing as you want them to, or things either getting what you want and not being satisfied with it because it wasn't how you hoped it would be, or thinking you want something and not getting it and the realisation of that.

  Lizzy Plapinger

  Song, Thinking, Want Something

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• In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe in the book, going out on patrol and coming into a village, the soldiers found a stash of documents and decided this was Taliban propaganda.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Book, Iraq, Soldier

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too. One of the main things we advocate for is for countries to set aside, even if it's fewer places, really big places, so that you can have viable populations.

  Patrick Bergin

  Country, Population, Stuff

  "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think it took me a long time to realize that you can't really score unless someone passes you the ball. The older you get as a woman, it's fewer and far between. The material isn't there.

  Amanda Peet

  Thinking, Long, Balls

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, tv.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I think the more people you add on stage, the more locked it things become. Whereas fewer members on stage gets the audience to notice any small idiosyncrasy or unique moment that one of the three people onstage is having. It also means that mistakes are accentuated, but to good affect generally if you are that type of band.

  Chris Cain

  Mistake, Mean, Unique

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• In making a record there are so fewer people involved - at least in our case. There were no more than three or four people in the studio at once. So I really feel like I can stand by everything on the record and say this is something that I personally endorse.

  Zooey Deschanel

  People, Three, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is San Diego - this retirement village, with its prim petticoat, that doesn't want to get too near the water. San Diego worries about all the turds washing up on the lovely, pristine beaches of La Jolla. San Diego wishes Mexico would have fewer babies. And San Diego, like the rest of America, is growing middle-aged.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Baby, Beach, Retirement

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• People were actually 6 times more likely to buy a jar of jam if they had encountered 6 than if they encountered 24, so what we learned from this study was that while people were more attracted to having more options, that's what sort of got them in the door or got them to think about jam, when it came to choosing time they were actually less likely to make a choice if they had more to choose from than if they had fewer to choose from.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Thinking, Doors, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Retirement, People, Plans

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When Donald Trump says, "Let's make America great again," that is code for let's take America backward. Back to a time when opportunity and dignity were reserved for some, not all. Back to the days when abortion was illegal, women had far fewer options, and life for too many women and girls was limited. Well, Donald, those days are over.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Opportunity, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We're in a situation now where fewer and fewer small films get made. People want these big giant tentpole sort of things, and I don't know, it's getting harder and harder to make a small movie.

  Paul Reubens

  People, Want, Giants

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Needs, Portfolios, Company

  Joel Greenblatt (2010). “The Little Book That Still Beats the Market”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons

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• There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.

  Marcel Proust

  Grief, Dust, Leaving

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2508, Jester House Publishing

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• Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.

  Linwood Barclay

  Running, Opportunity, Light

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• If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

  Robert Breault

  Listening, Answers, Asks

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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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• That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear.

  Susan Faludi

  Shopping, Clothes, Car

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

  Joseph Butler

  People, Remember, Temper

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

  Robert Pozen

  Boss, Needs, Done

  "Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours". Book by Robert Pozen, www.businessinsider.com. 2012.

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