"The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles."
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"The development of the child during the first three years after birth is unequaled in intensity and importance by any period that precedes or follows in the whole life of the child."
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"There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be."
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"The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week."
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"Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact."
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"I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues."
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"I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring."
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"Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace."
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"A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy."
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"The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him."
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"The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity."
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"He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway."
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"It usually takes me two to three days to practice and videotape a new piece but sometimes up to a week for more difficult ones."
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"If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache."
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"In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade."
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"There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter."
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"I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets."
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"So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work... Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me: food to increase the mass, peace to diminish the retarding force, and work to increase the force accelerating human movement."
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"About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar."
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"My Rainforests Project ... has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead."
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