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One evening in October, when I was one-third sober, An'taking home a'load' with manly pride; My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter, And a pig came up an' lay down by my side. Then we sang 'It's all fair weather when good fellowsget together,' Till a lady passing by was heard to say: 'You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses', And the pig got up and slowly walked away.
Benjamin Hapgood Burt— 1933 'The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away'.
This compositional variety is mediated by a highly redundant set structure, a second-order all-combinatorial set; each set form is hexachordally equivalent to or totally disjunct from fifteen other set forms, so that one-third of all the available set forms belong to a collection of sets which are hexachordally aggregate forming, that is, hexachordally identical.
milton babbitt— On Igor Stravinsky's Movements. Perspectives of new music, Spring-Summer 1964
The TNC seems to confuse black people with mercenaries: all blacks are mercenaries. If you do that, which means one-third of the population of Libya, which is black, is also mercenaries. They are killing people, normal workers, you know, mistreating them, invading some embassies like the embassy of Kenya, some embassies in Tripoli.
— African Union Chief Accuses Libyan Rebels of Targeting Black Africans
The Erie railroad kills 23 to 46; the other 845 railroads kill an average of one-third of a man each; and the rest of that million, amounting in the aggregate to that appalling figure of 987,631 corpses, die naturally in their beds! You will excuse me from taking any more chances on those beds. The railroads are good enough for me.
— Mark Twain, "The Danger of Lying in Bed", The Galaxy (February 1871), Volume 11, No. 2.
The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of money in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933
Milton Friedman— National Public Radio interview (Jan 1996)
It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
benjamin graham— Part IV, Chapter XVI, Reservoir Plan Versus Crop Control, p. 195
The Erie railroad kills 23 to 46; the other 845 railroads kill an average of one-third of a man each; and the rest of that million, amounting in the aggregate to that appalling figure of 987,631 corpses, die naturally in their beds! You will excuse me from taking any more chances on those beds. The railroads are good enough for me.
— Mark Twain, "The Danger of Lying in Bed", The Galaxy (February 1871), Volume 11, No. 2.
Bangladesh’s vision for becoming a middle-income country is ambitious, but not impossible. To achieve this goal, it will need to boost its competitiveness and grow at an even faster pace than the last decade. With nearly one-third of the population living in urban centres, they can become the engine of growth if local urban bodies are able to deliver essential services and make cities liveable.
— Johanness Zutt, World Bank country director for Bangladesh, quoted on Public Finance International, "Bangladesh local government to get $410m infrastructure boost", February 10, 2014.
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
— Will Rogers, in Paula McSpadden Love, The Will Rogers Book (1972), p. 20. Paula McSpadden Love was a niece of Will Rogers's and curator of the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma.
Four years after the death of Justinian , A.D. 569, was born in Mecca, in Arabia, the man Muhammad, who of all men, has exercised the greatest influence upon the human race. To be the religious head of many empires, to guide the daily life of one-third of the human race, may perhaps justify the title of a Messenger of God.
— Dr. William Draper, M.D. L.L.D. in "History of Intellectual Development of Europe" (1876)
