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"I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I been insincere? And have I failed to practice what I have been taught?"
"The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans."
"When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it. Now, they're investing it in distress type assets but they're buying them at distress prices if they buy them at market. It's the kind of stuff I love to do. I just don't have 700 million. Maybe we could go in it together."
"Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three."
"Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile."
"I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried."
"The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season."
"And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live."
"It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now."
"Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life."
"To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life."
"When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere."
"There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember."
"I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't."
"If it has more than three chords, it's jazz."
"They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)"
"One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'"
"The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness."
"The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend."
"Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?"
