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• There are three things an athlete must do. You must be in physical condition ... You must execute properly and quickly the fundamentals ... and you must have eagerness to sacrifice personal interests or glory for the welfare of the team.

  John Wooden

  Team, Athlete, Sacrifice

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• The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Love, Religion, Three

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”

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• There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

  Confucius

  Strong, Men, Lust

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• Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Three, Looks

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.24, Xist Publishing

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• To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.

  Gian Giacomo Trivulzio

  War, Three, More Money

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• You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.

  William Galston

  Marriage, Wedding, Country

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• The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Lightning, Three

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• Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

  John Amos Comenius

  Teacher, Educational, Giving

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• Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Three, Littles

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• Three things I want in a relationship: Eyes that won't cry, lips that won't lie, and love that won't die.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Cute, Relationship, Anniversary

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• Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

  Ricky Gervais

  Death, Suicide, Cat

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• There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

  Vince Lombardi

  Faith, Sports, Men

  Vince Lombardi (2000). “What it Takes to be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Three, Caddies

  P. G. Wodehouse, D. R. Bensen (1999). “Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.

  Hugh Prather

  Letting Go, Children, Heart

  Hugh Prather, Gerald Jampolsky (2000). “The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day Program to Cleanse Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit and Replenish Your Soul”, p.17, Conari Press

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• He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wisdom, Progress, Vices

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.214

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• Vince Lombardi says, you know, "In my life, there are three things: God, family and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it's God, family and Yahoo!, in that order.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspirational, Order, Empowering

  "News Stream" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. November 28, 2012.

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• Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

  Dante Alighieri

  Baby, Stars, Children

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• Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.

  William Golding

  Life, Moving, Fall

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• True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.

  Frederick Buechner

  Angel, Simple, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Brendan: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

  Jeff Bezos

  Perseverance, Thinking, Long

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• If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.

  Arnold Sommerfeld

  Science, Three, Want

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• There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer.

  Robin Williams

  Philosophy, Nice, Navy

  "Fictional character: Parry". "The Fisher King", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Sleep, Alcohol

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.

  Jack Welch

  Creativity, Keys, Top Management

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• We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Thinking, Numbers

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