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About two-thirds to three-fourths of the ancestry of all modern South Asians comes from a population group related to that of this Indus Valley individual. – Vagheesh Narasimhan	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I believe there are certain qualities that veterans have, and when Bush was president, I think about three-fourths of Congress were veterans and we would stick together and work together across the aisle. And President Bush was President Bush. So we got quite a lot done. – Senator Dole	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Doctors of osteotherapy, internists and psychiatrists are three-fourths of the prescribers. – Indra Cidambi	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Trump thinks ‘our country is going to hell.’ Well, there is likely little more than a chance in hell that we are going to amend the Constitution, amending the Constitution is one of the most serious things that lawmakers can do. Therefore the path to doing it is rightfully arduous. I would put the chances … as beyond a longshot. To be sure, changing the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, would require a two-thirds vote in Congress, then ratification from three-fourths of state legislatures. It could also be changed through a constitutional convention in which at least 34 states convene to vote on an amendment, which would then need ratification from a minimum 38 states. Trump since announcing his candidacy in mid-June has made illegal immigrants from Mexico a top concern and has suggested several solutions -- including a wall along the southern border and the change to birthright citizenship. – Jessica Levinson	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I have already told my family there is a realistic possibility I could come back with three silvers in the butterfly, or three bronze or three fourths, but I also believe I can get three golds. The butterfly is such an open game at the moment. – Le Clos	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Given the quickly changing tide of public opinion on this issue, I do not believe that an attempt to amend the U.S. Constitution could possibly gain the support of three-fourths of the states or a supermajority in the U.S. Congress, rather than pursing a divisive effort that would be doomed to fail, I am committing myself to ensuring the protection of religious liberties of all Americans. – Lindsey Graham	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have the potential for making massive change... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths of life forms on the Earth. – Anthony Barnosky	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It'll be interesting to see how the candidates play that strategy, if you advertise in Vegas, you're getting three-fourths of the voters, but the most Republican parts of the state are the hardest to reach. – David Damore	Found on CNN 8 years ago
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest. – Wallace Stevens	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. – Gail Godwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. – Gail	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. – Arthur Schopenhauer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

About two-thirds to three-fourths of the ancestry of all modern South Asians comes from a population group related to that of this Indus Valley individual.

– Vagheesh Narasimhan

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I believe there are certain qualities that veterans have, and when Bush was president, I think about three-fourths of Congress were veterans and we would stick together and work together across the aisle. And President Bush was President Bush. So we got quite a lot done.

– Senator Dole

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Doctors of osteotherapy, internists and psychiatrists are three-fourths of the prescribers.

– Indra Cidambi

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Trump thinks ‘our country is going to hell.’ Well, there is likely little more than a chance in hell that we are going to amend the Constitution, amending the Constitution is one of the most serious things that lawmakers can do. Therefore the path to doing it is rightfully arduous. I would put the chances … as beyond a longshot. To be sure, changing the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, would require a two-thirds vote in Congress, then ratification from three-fourths of state legislatures. It could also be changed through a constitutional convention in which at least 34 states convene to vote on an amendment, which would then need ratification from a minimum 38 states. Trump since announcing his candidacy in mid-June has made illegal immigrants from Mexico a top concern and has suggested several solutions -- including a wall along the southern border and the change to birthright citizenship.

– Jessica Levinson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I have already told my family there is a realistic possibility I could come back with three silvers in the butterfly, or three bronze or three fourths, but I also believe I can get three golds. The butterfly is such an open game at the moment.

– Le Clos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Given the quickly changing tide of public opinion on this issue, I do not believe that an attempt to amend the U.S. Constitution could possibly gain the support of three-fourths of the states or a supermajority in the U.S. Congress, rather than pursing a divisive effort that would be doomed to fail, I am committing myself to ensuring the protection of religious liberties of all Americans.

– Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have the potential for making massive change... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths of life forms on the Earth.

– Anthony Barnosky

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It'll be interesting to see how the candidates play that strategy, if you advertise in Vegas, you're getting three-fourths of the voters, but the most Republican parts of the state are the hardest to reach.

– David Damore

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

– Wallace Stevens

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

– Gail Godwin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

– Oscar Wilde

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.

– Gail

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

– Arthur Schopenhauer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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