"The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies."
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"Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners."
"I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers."
"Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value."
"When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over."
"The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death."
"The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery."
"In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time."
"He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration."
"Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me! It's really too bad for you. Because we have fairy-tales in which there are round worlds and I have always loved them … Have you ever been to the parts where people walk about upside-down?" Edmund shook his head. "And it isn't like that," he added. "There's nothing particularly exciting about a round world when you're there."
"For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts."
"Three months is a lifetime in politics."
"Making products we sell around the world, stamped with three proud words, 'Made in the USA!'"
"Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008."
"We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective."
"I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough."
"If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt who waited, well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected."
"When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades."
"Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life."
"Eating three times a day even if you're not hungry."