Thirds Quotes
1618 Thirds quotes by 1268 unique authors
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It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is…
— Henri Poincare
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It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes…
— Elvis Presley
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To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give…
— Teresa of Avila
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
— William Temple
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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
— William Temple
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is…
— Paul Hawken
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in…
— Diane Ackerman
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"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding…
— Lewis Grizzard
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He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.
— Damon Runyon
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do…
— Walter E. Williams
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The third level of wanting is "I commit to being rich." The definition of the word commit is to "devote oneself unreservedly." This means holding…
— T. Harv Eker
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With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters are spared the…
— Pat Buchanan
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Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second,…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount…
— Walter Russell
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A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity"…
— Irving Langmuir
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If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.
— Arnold Sommerfeld
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Use the head, use the heart, and if you can use both a tremendous revolution will happen. If you can use both you will become…
— Rajneesh
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Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid…
— Akira Mori
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When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award: I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The law of balance is a law of applied consciousness. You can never change it. You will get one thing, you lose the other, you…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Write it on your forehead, write it on your heart, on your third chakra, on your second chakra and your first chakra. You will never…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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