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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until...

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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came h...

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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not ...

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Thir...

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage ...

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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly...

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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old ag...

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The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nucle...

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Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I...

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One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimen...

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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...

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That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small ...

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My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to gi...

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second...

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I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. The...

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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...

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For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the med...

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and exp...

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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter ...

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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three ...

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I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After th...

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the...

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The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following que...

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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished b...

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When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family...

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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with...

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The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20,...

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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better unders...

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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could...

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John KeatsBright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an...

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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I h...

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The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state...

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Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do no...

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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one fo...

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Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; nex...

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last for...

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Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this s...

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I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I ...

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I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight mont...

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Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

You're a poem?' I repeated.She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, o...

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates...

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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I...

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All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashi...

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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose th...

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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world I...

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I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in B...

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Jerusalem is holy to three religions. You have to respect that.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad...

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When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...

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We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This ...

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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't wor...

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I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only corre...

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an...

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I love to do three easy things in the morning: I'll wash my face, I usually tone it, and then I'll p...

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance afte...

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I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, h...

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When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember...

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When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in ther...

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As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going int...

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