"Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud."
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"My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world."
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"When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose."
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"When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!"
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"As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it."
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"On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe."
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"At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans."
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"I can lose three million dollars because it's just paper. Thus, my lifestyle is not dependent up the stock market."
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"Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a six-foot-tall RAT!"
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"Without missing a beat Roger says, All the moneys right down here and points to the 1st three frets."
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"You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps."
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"I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world."
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"Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off." He grinned sheepishly. "That's ridiculous!" murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. "Check your watch." And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee."
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"There are three ways to correct our faults:We can change through behavior We can change through understanding We can change heart"
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"Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless."
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"There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand."
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"There are only three great puzzles in the world, the puzzle of love, the puzzle of death, and, between each of these and part of both of them, the puzzle of God. God is the greatest puzzle of all."
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"I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began."
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"The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three."
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"One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy."
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