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In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.
Rebecca Traister
Women
Married
Percent
Proportion
Dropped
Were
American
Who
American Women
Below
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.
Richard Schiff
Time
Day
Change
Events
Remember
King
Long
Richard Nixon
Took
Nixon
About
Martin
Martin Luther
Seemed
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
Proportion
Dead
Were
Tragic
Won
America
Turn
Richard
Us
Bobby
Bobby Kennedy
Certain
Suddenly
Kennedy
Bring
Luther
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton
Happiness
Wealth
Moon
Devil
Increase
Worldly
Minds
Sun
Those
General
Proportion
Feed
Bait
She
Real
Real Happiness
Stores
Riches
Farthest
Fullest
Whose
Recede
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
Robyn Hitchcock
People
Intelligence
Tend
Inverse
Proportion
Tends
Smarter
Get
Bigger
Groups
Number
To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.
Ruth Bernhard
Indicate
Spirit
Proportion
Ideal
Mass
Reveal
Goal
Dominating
Sculptural
When it comes to gang-based child exploitation, it is self-evident to anyone who cares to look that if you look at all the recent high-profile cases, there is a high proportion of men that are of Pakistani heritage.
Sajid Javid
You
Men
Exploitation
Heritage
Cares
High
Cases
High-Profile
Proportion
Look
Self-Evident
Child
Anyone
Who
Who Cares
Pakistani
Recent
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson
Man
Rich
Every
Proportion
Between
His
According
Poor
Every Man
Desires
I've got my organic veg patch and fruit; we're very garden-obsessed, my husband and I. He designed a garden for me for Christmas, so beautiful! Alasdhair's very good at the proportion and ground work, and I come in and do the planting and the color scheme.
Stella McCartney
Work
Beautiful
Christmas
Good
Me
Fruit
Garden
Husband
Organic
Color
Proportion
Scheme
He
Come
Got
Very
Patch
Ground
Planting
Designed
The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers is their genetic code.
Theo Jansen
You
Walk
Animals
Say
Range
System
Beach
Proportion
Could
Combination
Genetic
Because
Smoothly
Leg
Tubes
Certain
Works
Code
Numbers
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Thomas Sprat
Life
Great
Negligence
Married
Embittered
Married Life
Trifles
Proportion
Which
Originated
I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you'll look great in anything.
Tim Gunn
Great
You
Balance
Believe
Harmony
Silhouette
About
Proportion
Look
Fit
Anything
Mantra
No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
Timothy Garton Ash
Women
Men
Men And Women
Country
Seven
Immigrant
Muslim
No Country
More
Proportion
Mainly
Continent
Than
Six
African
Estimated
Them
Europe
Descent
Population
Larger
Million
It's Toby Jones playing Alfred Hitchcock, not Alfred Hitchcock. We all felt that his silhouette was crucial, so his nose and lips were crucial as well. We had to build it out a bit to get the silhouette. But, with my nose being so small within the proportion of my face, the first nose was too big. I felt like a nose on parade.
Toby Jones
Face
First
Big
Build
Too
Alfred Hitchcock
Bit
Parade
Out
Silhouette
Small
Proportion
Crucial
Had
Like
Well
Within
Felt
Were
His
Hitchcock
Get
Lips
Being
Nose
Playing
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.
Tony Campolo
You
Bible
Vote
Will
Community
Thoroughly
Significant
About
Percent
Proportion
Over
Most
Talk
Democratic
Well
Forget
American
African
African Americans
African-American
Evangelical
Evangelicals
Out of the 1.2 billion people in India, one-third of them are between the age of 1-14 and by 2030, India will have a dynamic and youthful workforce of about 700 million with an average age of 35. This is expected to constitute a substantial proportion of world's workforce.
Vayalar Ravi
Age
People
World
Will
Out
India
Constitute
One-Third
About
Proportion
Between
Expected
Substantial
Dynamic
Them
Average
Workforce
Billion
Youthful
Million
Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Great
Freedom
Learning
Men
Self-Defense
Before
White
Action
Indebted
Emancipation
Has-Been
Wealthy
Proportion
Developed
Part
Toward
Institutions
Employer
Been
Same
Endowment
After
Universities
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
Wendy Craig
Every
Seven
Significant
About
Classroom
Proportion
Being
Children
Victimized
Population
Four
Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
Zooey Deschanel
Good
You
Suits
Recognise
Proportion
Shapes
Know
Look
Understand
Figure
Now
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.
Richard Dawkins
Time
Ignorance
Science
I Am
Enough
Our
Resources
Those
Our Time
Significant
Deliberate
Attack
Proportion
Longer
Feels
Devote
Am
Scientists
Get
Just
Organised
Who
Defending
Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
Isaac D'Israeli
Degree
Power
Doubt
Rose
Increased
Local
Rule
Distracted
Arabian
Weakness
Exact
Some
Temporary
Proportion
Importance
Most
Princes
Periods
Without
Always
Hebrew
Certain
Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
Xenophon
Man
Plant
Will
Build
Field
Farm
Proportion
Never
He
House
Fairest
Well
Him
Knows
Another
Foretell
May
Sow
Cannot
Fruits
Inhabit
Who
Gather
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau
Respect
Learning
Men
Out
Proportion
Scholarship
Greatly
Commonly
Use
Serve
I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
L'Wren Scott
I Am
Perceived
Proportion
Obsessed
How
Am
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