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"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."
"Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
"Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off."
"To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script."
"Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is."
"The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent."
"The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing."
"Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings"
"One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz."
"Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes; whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy Scriptures; in whatever place you live, do not easily leave it. Keep these three precepts and you will be saved."
"There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools."
"Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves."
"The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id."
"There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less."
"I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older."
"Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments"
