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"I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again."
"The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided."
"If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further."
"Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers."
"If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive."
"What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem."
"I was a minister in the Frente Popular (Popular Front) government, one of the three in Chile during the Pedro Aguirre Cerda years, and I was as much a Socialist then as I am today."
"You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron.""
"It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!"
"If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year."
"The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that."
"In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one."
"In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty."
"What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?"
"Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage."
"Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought."
"There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs."
"All Gaul is divided into three parts."
"Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it."
"Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.'"
