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• If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Needs, Adjectives, Chosen

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• To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting.
  Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.

  Michael Stipe

  Years, Insulting, Brad

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• I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.

  Jon Tester

  Mom, Hands, Meat

  "What I've Learned: Senator Jon Tester (D, Mont.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 28, 2010.

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• If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

  James Dobson

  Men, Two, Way

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• Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

  Sander Levin

  Retirement, Saving, Social

  "Social Security at 75: Don’t Mess With Success" by Rep. Sandy Levin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2010.

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• In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.

  Robert Fogel

  Past, World, Body

  "The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700". Book by Roderick Floud,‎ Robert W. Fogel,‎ Bernard Harris,‎ Sok Chul Hong, 2011.

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• My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.

  Tom Seaver

  Lasts

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• The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.

  Steven Sample

  Average, Suffering, Sense Of Humor

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• The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication and esprit de corps have taken Southwest from a three-airplane dream to a 500-airplane reality.

  Herb Kelleher

  Dream, Taken, Airplane

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• Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there's something greater out there for me? I mean, maybe a lot of people would say, 'Hey man, this is what is.' I reached my goal, my dream, my life. I think, 'God, it's got to be more than this.' I mean this isn't, this can't be what it's all cracked up to be. I love playing football and I love being quarterback for this team. But at the same time, I think there are a lot of other parts about me that I'm trying to find.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Dream, Team

  Interview with Daniel Schorn, www.cbsnews.com. November 4, 2005.

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• I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game.

  Birdy

  Book, Games, Hunger

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

  Daniel Levitin

  Years, Practice, Class

  "Malcolm Gladwell on Joy, Gates and the Beatles and on stage" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2008.

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• The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Years, Half, World

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• I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.

  Steve Spurrier

  Player, Two, Keys

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• Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

  Mark Haddon

  Years, Two, World

  "I'm flattered, amazed, deeply moved and sometimes a little dizzy". Live chat, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2004.

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• If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.

  Tom Robbins

  Kissing, Men, Animal

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.285, Bantam

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• If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Names, Conventions

  Will Rogers (1961). “The Will Rogers Book”

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• We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wife, Verbs, Facts

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• It's crazy to say that after three games [without a goal] I was in crisis. I do not care whether I score or not, what matters is that the team win and continue to do so.

  Lionel Messi

  Soccer, Team, Crazy

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• The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with coins, or dice, or chess pieces, or pencils. He knows it, and that's that. He cannot conceive a different sum. There are mathematicians who say that three plus one is a tautology for four, a different way of saying "four" ... If three plus one can be two, or fourteen, then reason is madness.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Two, Chess Pieces

  Jorge Luis Borges (2001). “The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA).

  Vladimir Arnold

  Military, Kgb, Submarines

  "Polymathematics: is mathematics a single science or a set of arts?". Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, edited by V. I. Arnold, M. Atiyah, P. Lax, and B. Mazur, pp. 403 - 416, 2000.

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• Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace, from Saunderson and Sims, Lie heaped in their harmonious disarray Of figures,-disentangle them who may.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Block, Lying, Book

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"

  Jennifer Lopez

  Basketball, Thinking, Talking

  "Jennifer Gets It Right". Interview with Lesley Goober, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• I love going into rehearsals day after day for three, four weeks, trying stuff, coming back the next day, building on that. So many times I'd drive home from the studio [after] shooting and I'd be thinking about a certain moment, and I'd think, "Oh, I know what to do!"

  Anthony Heald

  Home, Thinking, Next Day

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

  William Gibson

  Long, Prejudice, Volume

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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