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In the range of music that we play – roughly 300 years’ worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

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Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ tricks we are unaware of to fill in details about people we don’t know intimately.

Leonard Mlodinow

Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ tricks we are unaware of to fill in details about people we don’t know intimately.

Leonard Mlodinow

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All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

Bjarke Ingels

All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

Bjarke Ingels

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A touring comic’s typical day roughly amounts to an hour of being laughed at and 20 minutes of being photographed. The other 22 hours and 40 minutes are spent in silence.

Rhys Darby

A touring comic’s typical day roughly amounts to an hour of being laughed at and 20 minutes of being photographed. The other 22 hours and 40 minutes are spent in silence.

Rhys Darby

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I consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines.

Jeffrey Gitomer

I consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines.

Jeffrey Gitomer

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ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it’s attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?

Richard Engel

ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it’s attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?

Richard Engel

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‘Existence’ is about the world of roughly 2050, and terrible things have happened, but guess what? People have reacted to the terrible things by coping, as they always have.

David Brin

‘Existence’ is about the world of roughly 2050, and terrible things have happened, but guess what? People have reacted to the terrible things by coping, as they always have.

David Brin

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Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.

Edmund Phelps

Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.

Edmund Phelps

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Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

Douglas Coupland

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

Douglas Coupland

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I started writing regularly for ‘The Atlantic’ roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I started writing regularly for ‘The Atlantic’ roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

James Lovelock

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

James Lovelock

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My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It’s just a matter of joining the dots.

Terry Pratchett

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It’s just a matter of joining the dots.

Terry Pratchett

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In the relatively short time frame of December 2015 to March 2017, nearly half of all young Republicans left their party at some point, with roughly a quarter bidding the GOP adieu for good.

Kristen Soltis Anderson

In the relatively short time frame of December 2015 to March 2017, nearly half of all young Republicans left their party at some point, with roughly a quarter bidding the GOP adieu for good.

Kristen Soltis Anderson

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If there’s a camera on me or off me, it’s roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

Ronda Rousey

If there’s a camera on me or off me, it’s roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

Ronda Rousey

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Subprime mortgages, typically defined as those issued to borrowers with low credit scores, make up roughly the riskiest one-third of all mortgages.

Michael Burry

Subprime mortgages, typically defined as those issued to borrowers with low credit scores, make up roughly the riskiest one-third of all mortgages.

Michael Burry

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I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

Ashley Wagner

I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

Ashley Wagner

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The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It’s our job to try to prevent and put an end to torture and ill-treatment.

Peter Maurer

The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It’s our job to try to prevent and put an end to torture and ill-treatment.

Peter Maurer

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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it’s free to everyone.

S. Jay Olshansky

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it’s free to everyone.

S. Jay Olshansky

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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

William Inge

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

William Inge

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I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

Kehinde Wiley

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

Kehinde Wiley

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In the range of music that we play – roughly 300 years’ worth-there really are more similarities than differences.

Just as our brains fill in the details of an image our eyes record only roughly, so, too, do our brains employ tricks we are unaware of to fill in details about people we don’t know intimately.

All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

A touring comic’s typical day roughly amounts to an hour of being laughed at and 20 minutes of being photographed. The other 22 hours and 40 minutes are spent in silence.

I consider myself a frequent flyer, flying roughly 200 times a year on mostly mainstream airlines.

ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it’s attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?

‘Existence’ is about the world of roughly 2050, and terrible things have happened, but guess what? People have reacted to the terrible things by coping, as they always have.

Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

I started writing regularly for ‘The Atlantic’ roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It’s just a matter of joining the dots.

In the relatively short time frame of December 2015 to March 2017, nearly half of all young Republicans left their party at some point, with roughly a quarter bidding the GOP adieu for good.

If there’s a camera on me or off me, it’s roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

Subprime mortgages, typically defined as those issued to borrowers with low credit scores, make up roughly the riskiest one-third of all mortgages.

I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It’s our job to try to prevent and put an end to torture and ill-treatment.

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it’s free to everyone.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.