Three Quotes
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will…
— William James
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal…
— Mark Twain
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A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.
— Unknown Author
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If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again that I am…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Three keys to success: read, read, read.
— Vladimir Lenin
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I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which…
— Galileo Galilei
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We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and…
— John Dewey
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I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine…
— George Wald
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In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean…
— Ravi Zacharias
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You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started…
— William Golding
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the…
— Randy Pausch
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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
— Robert Burns
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It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At…
— Werner Heisenberg
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One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.
— Henri Michaux
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