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Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
I want fewer interruptions in my day. I have eliminated a lot of things from my life. I'm on a declining scale of wanting things.
Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do.
Few escape our most deprived estates. Few young people with potential escape difficult upbringings. Fewer cross the social divides.
What you've seen from the 1980s, particularly in this country, is far fewer people doing Saturday jobs and doing jobs after school.
If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.
In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.
Restaurants should be forced to recycle their leftovers for animal consumption - and should create fewer leftovers in the first place.
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.
Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
We just haven't had enough women in senior roles on Wall Street overall - fewer women in the investment banking function overall as well.
Staffing branches with tellers can be considered a premium service in a world where fewer customers visit bank branches for transactions.
I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.
When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you've developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.
Healthy, sustainable food production methods give us food that is nutritionally better and with fewer pesticides, antibiotics, and hormones.
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
I urge the Government to look carefully at scrapping the entire burden of regulation on micro-businesses with, say, three employees or fewer.
Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered.
The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.
There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally 'male' subjects, but they are outstanding in the field - like Margaret MacMillan.
When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.
Social Security and Medicare are necessary safety nets, but they are nearing insolvency as fewer pay in, more take out, and more take out more.
Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.
Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.
As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
I had the luck of being in Madrid. They sign some of the best players in the world, and that really leaves fewer opportunities for young players.
I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
People and companies make mistakes. I guarantee we'll make a mistake next quarter. So what? Businesses make mistakes. Hopefully smaller, and fewer.
When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.
Paid child care would make child care more efficient, allowing more children to be cared for by fewer adults, and thus free up parents to work more.
Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline - it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
When I took office in 2011, I made a commitment that the Office of Attorney General would find ways to do more while spending fewer taxpayer dollars.
There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
I think, with 'St. Nick,' when you're working with a smaller budget, you have fewer risks involved. You're able to take chances with style and content.
It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.
I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.
When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.
I don't appeal to everyone well. I appeal to fewer people in a much stronger way. That's what fandom is to me, and what creates fans for everything I make.
In my opinion, there are fewer and fewer great goalkeepers because, with respect to when I started, they have to do so much more compared with in the past.
The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.
The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.