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«Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.»
«While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in»
«Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.»
«When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.»
«Two-thirds of help is to give courage»
Author: Irish Sayings | Keywords: thirds, two-thirds
«The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.»
Author: Norman R. Augustine | Keywords: generates, thirds
«The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.»
«When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.»
«Surely your Lord knows that you pass in prayer nearly two-thirds of the night, and (sometimes) half of it, and (sometimes) a third of it, and (also) a party of those with you; and Allah measures the night and the day. He knows that you are not able t»
«The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.»

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