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"Hark ye, you Cocklyn and la Bouche, I find by strengthening you, I have put a rod into your hands to whip myself, but I am still able to deal with you both; but since we met in love, let us part in love, for I find that three of a trade can never agree."
"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago."
"I've written three books you could think of as memoirs."
"There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet."
"There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved."
"Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'."
"I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence."
"A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment."
"On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity."
"The slow boat-I know it's the slow boat because I've been watching them for thirty-three weeks-won the first piece by a full length. Then the fast boat won the second piece. And so it went for the next four pieces, back and forth. Conclusion: I hate seat racing."
"I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life."
"If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little."
"A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things."
"Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth."
"If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason."
"If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions."
"His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation."
"I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory."
"Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay."
"There are three different modes: playing piano, just me at the microphone, and me at my effects units. And I can mix those up in different ways."
