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"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed."
"I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them."
"We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way."
"There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ."
"We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?"
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"Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed."
"There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy."
"...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing"
"Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money."
"All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret."
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
"Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away."
"When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself."
"It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time."
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
"Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues."
"Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little."
"People go through three conversions: The conversion of their head, their heart, and their pocketbook. Unfortunately, not all at the same time."
"Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity."
"My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey."
"If I find here and Now unacceptable, I have three choices: 1-Totally accept it. 2- Change it. 3-Remove myself from the situation. That is taking responsibility for my life."
"The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon."
"Were way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs."
"Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles."
"There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots."
