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Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Ronald Reagan
Tough
Setting
Our
Air
Air Pollution
Approximately
Released
Emission
Stems
Vegetation
Overboard
Go
Sources
Man-Made
Pollution
Enforcing
Standards
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
George Will
People
Long
Parents
Advice
Approximately
Lighten
Perhaps
Been
Up
Children
Raising
Raising Children
The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.
Aristotle
Truth
Good
Man
Truth Is
Natural
Men
Guess
Approximately
Faculty
True
Instinct
Likely
Also
Make
Makes
Arrive
Same
Probabilities
May
Noted
Who
Hence
Sufficient
I began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses - each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.
Robert Kiyosaki
Today
You
Old
Wife
Degree
Monopoly
Monthly
Approximately
Harvard
Houses
Real
Scientist
Years
Rocket
Began
Green
Little
Us
Paying
Each
Play
Playing
Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.
Alison Sweeney
You
Heart
Blame
Parents
Believe
Approximately
Kids
At Least One
Obese
About
Percent
Risk
Fact
Factor
Schools
How
Least
Years
Heart Disease
Overweight
American
Disease
American Children
Children
Us
Ages
With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.
Amy Gerstler
Fans
Field
Immediate
Approximately
Scared
Seems
Having
Poetry
Outside
Knee
Contemporary
Undergoing
Reader
Genuinely
Surgery
Any
Interested
Sentient
Breathing
Many
One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.
Anna Paquin
Day
Every Day
Hate
Crime
Country
Every
Approximately
Hour
Committed
In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.
Annette Funicello
Women
Men
Down
States
Approximately
Rate
Develop
No-One
Most
Waist
Affected
Women Are
Often
Explain
United
Twice
Why
United States
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Arnold Bennett
Man
Culture
Old
Approximately
He
Sin
Supposed
Read
Surely
Does
Exist
Very
Wonder
Person
Being
Social
Old Man
Average
Who
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
Arthur Cayley
Experience
Space
Long
Our
Approximately
Has-Been
Physical
Only
Remain
Absolutely
True
Geometry
Been
Being
Regard
Regarded
Which
For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
Barbara Mandrell
School
Care
Will
Three
Whatever
Once
Approximately
High
High School
Take
Take Care
He
Know
Got
Doing
Years
Off
Going
Graduates
Hockey
Ice
Next
Playing
In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
Blanche Lincoln
Alone
People
Three
Awareness
Enough
Approximately
Hungry
Eat
Three-Quarters
Risk
Arkansas
Does
Quarters
Issue
Goal
Tragic
Get
Going
Children
Million
Four
Million People
Bring
If New Yorkers reduced portion size to 16 ounces from 20 ounces for one sugary drink every two weeks, it would collectively save approximately 2.3 million pounds over one year.
Casey Neistat
Year
Every
Approximately
Would
Collectively
Drink
Weeks
Pounds
Over
New
Reduced
Size
New Yorkers
Portion
Million
Two
Two Weeks
Save
If I may discuss the idea of explosion. The number of regulations issued in the last two years is approximately the same as the number issued in the last two years of the Bush administration.
Cass Sunstein
Approximately
Administration
Idea
Years
Discuss
Same
May
Bush
Bush Administration
Explosion
Regulations
Last
Number
Two
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Country
Doctors
Typhus
Approximately
Those
Administration
Districts
One-Third
Most
Contracted
Died
Them
Third
We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.
Charles Vest
Half
Approximately
Cost
Restraining
Percentage
Price
Consumer
Points
Within
Been
Tuition
Room
Growth
Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20.
Curt Weldon
People
Danger
Approximately
Total
Able
Direct
Individuals
Forces
Tampa
Working
Special
Special Forces
Amount
Florida
Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.
David Shields
Sports
Better
Passion
Our
Approximately
Attachment
Beat
Because
Territorial
Reverse
Than
Your
Team
Deeply
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
Douglas Haig
Struggle
Long
Inevitable
Opposing
Approximately
Moral
Outset
Long Struggle
Equal
Supremacy
Forces
Turn
Numbers
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
Howard Rheingold
Settled
Approximately
Civilization
Longer
Years
Than
Much
Agricultural
Lived
Humans
I realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.
Jenna Morasca
Life
Time
Matter
Cancer
Will
My Life
Long
Earth
Spent
Approximately
Only
Deal
Leave
Years
Did
Officially
Where
Realized
By The Time
The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.
Jeremy Grantham
Time
People
Rare
Believe
Incredibly
Market
Approximately
Rare Occasions
Fact
Simply
True
Almost
Almost All
Occasions
Inefficient
Around
Brain
Efficient
Getting
Being
Want
Dysfunctional
Capable
Really
Hard
Hard Time
Utterly
We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.
Jim Murphy
War
Women
Will
Men
Too
Approximately
Exactly
Civil
Civil War
Never
Had
Almost
Know
How
Close
Disguised
Estimated
Low
Themselves
Certainly
Many
Fought
Number
Enlist
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
John Clayton
Alone
Language
Approximately
Between
Were
English
English Language
Lives
Published
Jesus
How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States? I mean, we just don't do the same things. What I've said, very simply, is that unlike other colonies, for the first 250 years approximately, indigenous people were either the dominant force or an equal force.
John Ralston Saul
People
Immigration
First
Other
Approach
Unlike
Say
States
Approximately
Possibly
Citizenship
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Colonies
Simply
Equal
Force
Said
How
Were
Years
Dominant
Very
Dominant Force
Canadian
Same
Just
Same Things
Either
Mean
Root
Europe
United
United States
Things
In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.
Marc Andreessen
Internet
First
Partner
Cloud
Month
Approximately
Running
Cost
Computing
Customer
CEO
Company
Basic
Application
Ben
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