"When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects"
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"In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts."
"One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find."
"Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?"
"The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application."
"That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal."
"The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone."
"There's an interesting study that says wealthy people get up three hours before their first outside appointment."
"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
"...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you."
"Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself."
"Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point."
"The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all."
"The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body."
"It is quite a three-pipe problem."
"He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone."
"When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six."
"The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety."
"You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots."
"Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high."