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There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Roles

" Michelle Pfeiffer: 'I never had a big game plan'" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2009.

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All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

Richard Dawkins

College, Age, World

Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins, twitter.com. August 08, 2013.

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People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

Paul Tough

School, College, People

Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

Elif Safak

Looks, Who We Are, Matter

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It has been estimated that of the world Jew population of approximately fifteen millions, no fewer than five million are in the United States. Twenty-five percent of the inhabitants of New York are Jews. During the Great War we bought off this huge American Jewish public by the promise of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, held by Ludendorff to be the master stroke of Allied propaganda as it enabled us not only to appeal to Jews in America but to Jews in Germany as well.

Sidney Robertson Cowell

New York, War, Home

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Research demonstrates that autistic traits are distributed into the non-autistic population; some people have more of them, some have fewer. History suggests that many individuals whom we would today diagnose as autistic - some severely so - contributed profoundly to our art, our math, our science, and our literature.

Morton Ann Gernsbacher

Art, Math, People

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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

Socrates

Inspirational, Life, God

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Count your blessings for selfish reasons! Psychological studies show that people who are aware of their blessings and feel grateful for them live longer than non-grateful people, have fewer medical problems such as hypertension, earn more and achieve longer marriages.

Gregg Easterbrook

Gratitude, Selfish, Grateful

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Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that isn't always the case, his attitude is more fruitful since, in the hope of undertaking a hundred projects, followed up by diligent action, the optimist will end up completing fifty. Conversely, in limiting himself to undertake a mere ten, the pessimist might complete five at best and often fewer, since he'll devote little energy to a task he feels to be doomed from the start.

Matthieu Ricard

Attitude, Work Out, Energy

Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd

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No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

John F. Kennedy

Race, Risk, Deception

American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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It is well known that strong to violent tornado activity in the US has decreased markedly since statistics began in the 1950s, which has also been a period of average warming. So, if anything, global warming causes FEWER tornado outbreaks...not more. In other words, more violent tornados would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling,' not 'global warming.'

Roy Spencer

Strong, Average, Weather

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The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.

Edmond Taylor

War, Europe, Mind

Edmond Taylor (2015). “The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922”, p.312, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Past, Achievement

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Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.

Sherman Alexie

Kings, Book, Reading

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I have this theory that the more important and intimate the emotion, the fewer words are required to express it. For instance in dating: 'Will you go out with me?' Six words. 'I really care for you.' Five words. 'You matter to me' Four words. 'I love you.' Three words. 'Marry me.' Two words. Well, what's left? What's the one most important and intimate word you can ever say to somebody?

'Goodbye...'

J. Michael Straczynski

Life, Goodbye, Love You

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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Anthony Storr

Marriage, Single Life, Tears

Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

Roberto Unger

People, Brazil, China

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Among Hispanics, there is little change in popularity from a grade point average of 1 through 2.5. After 2.5, the gradient turns sharply negative. A Hispanic student with a 4.0 grade point average is the least popular of all Hispanic students, and has 3 fewer friends than a typical white student with a 4.0 grade point average.

Roland G. Fryer, Jr.

Average, White, Typical

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I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.

Jack Welch

People, Excellence, Asking

"Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

Jean Giono

Sea, Desert, Levels

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There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Maureen O'Hara

Mean, Tolls, Roles

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Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

Billie Burke

Wish, Might, Sin

Billie Burke (2015). “With A Feather On My Nose”, p.33, Pickle Partners Publishing

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Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

Mortimer Zuckerman

Population, Today, April

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There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.

Wesley Snipes

Cat, Guy, African American

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A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

Lily Collins

Competition, Film, Made

"Lily Collins Feels The 'Momentum' Going Into 2011". Interview with Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. January 10, 2011.

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