Antonio Machado
Poet
"Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it."
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T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Go get yourself crucified and then rise on the third day."
Steven Wright
Comedian
"Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?"
Louis St. Laurent
Politician
"There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!"
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"Coincidence doesn't happen a third time."
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"The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about."
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"You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third."
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"I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over."
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"Customers first, employees second, and shareholders third."
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"I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning."
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"The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself."
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"The third always speaks the unspeakable words."
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"If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell.""
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"I travel third-class because there is no fouth-class."
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"If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?"
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"We must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to."
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"When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk."
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"I'm the third of five children."
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"The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive."
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"Third time pays for all"
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"I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?"
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"Two ill meales make the third a glutton."
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"I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity."
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"Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head."
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