"There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel."
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"In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube."
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"I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour."
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"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."
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"Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us."
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"Maybe the next three Star Wars movies will tell the story of how the last three Star Wars movies got so shitty."
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"There are three sorts of people in the world: Those who are immovable, people who don't get it, or don't want to do anything about it; there are people who are movable, people who see the need for change and are prepared to listen to it; and there are people who move, people who make things happen."
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"Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly."
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"And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word."
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"You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies. I can never make it easy by saying, 'Here are three things.' You have to derive it yourself to ingrain it in your head for the rest of your life."
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"There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious."
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"Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right."
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"You always draw from yourselves even if you're playing the most crazy type of person. What you really want is to be three-dimensional."
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"Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough."
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"I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses."
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"Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it."
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"The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have."
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"Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon."
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"I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers."
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"It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
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