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• What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.

  Cathy Crimmins

  Women, Years, Breathing

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• ... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every successive year would see fewer of the unfit born, and finally none. But, it may be urged, this is legalized infanticide. Assuredly it is; and it is urgently needed.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Doctors, Years, Purpose

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• I get in fewer arguments when I'm alone.

  Paula Poundstone

  Argument

  FaceBook post by PAULA POUNDSTONE from Aug 11, 2013

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• Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Let Me

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• There are hardly any truths upon which we always remain agreed, and still fewer objects of pleasure which we do not change every hour, I do not know whether there is a means of giving fixed
  rules for adapting discourse to the inconstancy of our caprices.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Giving, Hours

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works”, p.410, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

  Mark Twain

  Ifs

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• Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Character, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1505, Delphi Classics

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• Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.

  Andrew Schneider

  Roots, Funeral, Biggie

  "Fictional character: Chris Stevens". "Northern Exposure/ Our Wedding", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read manual on breast-feeding, devotes fewer than two pages to the working mother.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Mother, Children, Reality

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• A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

  Jonas Salk

  People, Deficit, Elders

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• We are killing our host the planet Earth.... I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of the Earth.' I make no apologies for that statement.... We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.

  Paul Watson

  Apology, Population, Needs

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• Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Exercise, Thinking

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• During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds - and a warmer world.

  Henrik Svensmark

  Clouds, Years, Rays

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• I think we as a country have definitely got to do better when it comes to housing people of all backgrounds. Not only can the less fortunate afford housing but fewer people of all kinds can afford it.

  CeCe Winans

  Country, Thinking, People

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• Well, of course, all of the statistics say there are fewer eligible black men in my circle. But I've never thought of it that way. I believe that if the right person came into my life that would have been terrific.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Men, Circles

  "Dr. Rice Makes a House Call". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Those who satisfy the wants of a smaller number of people only collect fewer votes-dollars-than those who satisfy the wants of more people.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Numbers, People, Dollars

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.10, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Philosophy, Rights

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• Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending in among women and children. I heard they were making statements that they were proud of losing fewer armed men than civilians. It's hard to see how they could be proud of such a situation.

  Jan Egeland

  Children, Men, Hezbollah

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• But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

  Nelson Mandela

  Rights, Years, People

  Nelson Mandela (1973). “No Easy Walk to Freedom”, p.168, Heinemann

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• Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?

  Hillary Clinton

  Party, Doe, Want

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I feel like people might be slightly less inclined to hate me as much as they did in the past, and I think part of that is selling fewer records.

  Moby

  Hate, Past, Thinking

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will listen. Tons of people talk about books they want to write. Far fewer are those who actually complete that vision. Don’t be a talker.

  Po Bronson

  Book, Writing, People

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• There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

  John Bradshaw

  Dark, Medicine, Age

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• We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.

  Ehud Olmert

  Couple, Mean, Fire

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• I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

  Leah Ward Sears

  Faith, Two, People

  "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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