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"The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness."
"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will."
"I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it."
"Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?"
"I go scuba diving. I ski. Watch movies. I take a week of silence every three months in the wilderness. And, besides, I have fun all the time anyway."
"There are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings."
"Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key."
"I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion."
"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater."
"that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me"
"The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once."
"A virus has three purposes: to duplicate, to infiltrate and to spread from one host to the next. Ultimately, even a single virus can shut down an entire system."
"I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it."
"I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon"
"I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition."
"It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she."
"No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it."
"We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!"
"Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life."
"I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower."
