"Speak the truth. Give whatever you can. Never be angry. These three steps will lead you Into the presence of the gods."
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"Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid."
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"Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson."
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"There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three."
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"Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them."
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"Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it."
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"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough."
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"By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give."
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"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust."
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"I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer."
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"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences."
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"Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions."
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"If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student."
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"I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement."
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"Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster."
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"Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations."
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"The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line."
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"And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said."
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"Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition."
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"That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues."
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