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• On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked him what his art was about, he'd hit them with the same three words: "Royalty, heroism, and the streets.

  Jay-Z

  Running, Art, Night

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.108, Random House Group

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• Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Friendship, Happiness, Marriage

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• I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.

  Tammara Webber

  Guy, Bait, Three

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Between the Lines”, p.37, Tammara Webber

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Energy, Three, Purpose

  "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy". "Century" Illustrated Magazine, Volume 60, June 1900.

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• We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Feelings, Three

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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• Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

  Bear Grylls

  Giving Up, Heart, Survival

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• Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure. Try to become stretchy-if you generally write 8 words, throw a 20 word sentence in there, and a few three-word shorties. If you're generally a 20 word writer, make sure you throw in some threes, fivers and sevens, just to keep the reader from going crosseyed.

  Janet Fitch

  Writing, Numbers, People

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• Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

  Mo Willems

  Children, Writing, Byzantium

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• What's your brand? If you can't answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand's in trouble.

  Al Ries

  Two, Three, Answers

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• My sight
  My heart
  My Life
  All three words I have woven into one ... Love.

  Rumi

  Heart, Sight, Woven

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• What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical, one word is Russian, and one word is Yiddish. This kind of connection between very high language and very low language is very natural, people use it all the time.

  Etgar Keret

  Biblical, People, Typical

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them. I did worship them but now I am alone on a rock hewn out of my own body.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love You, Rocks, Long

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• The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Love Is, Humanity, Three

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.306, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I have three words for you," EMT Guy said. "Possible internal bleeding." I turned back to him. "Don't you think if I was bleeding internally, I'd know somewhere deep inside? Like, internally?

  Darynda Jones

  Thinking, Guy, Three

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.129, Macmillan

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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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Energy, Three, Problem

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Practice, Two, Secret

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• Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

  Steven Erikson

  Children, Fantasy Novels, Dying

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• At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

  Arthur Golden

  Death, Loss, Three

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• Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. 'Topless Pizza Lunch'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cutting, Lunch

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• BDS represents three words that will help bring about the defeat of Zionist Israel and victory for Palestine.

  Ronnie Kasrils

  Israel, Victory, Three

  "Destructive 'Agnosticism'" by Yitzhak Santis, www.haaretz.com. November 26, 2010.

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• If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have powerful motives—personal and patriotic—to help one another succeed and comfort one another when they fail. But at the same time they all compete for history’s blessing.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, Patriotic, Blessing

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.524, Simon and Schuster

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• Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

  Anthony Weiner

  Education, Cities, Three

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• I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically.

  Bun B

  Rapper, Two, Typical

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, believermag.com. June 1, 2006.

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• I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant.'

  Dean Martin

  Funny, Goodbye, Pregnancy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Thinking, Three, Wonderful

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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