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• I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Writing, Thirds

  Bernard Malamud (1989). “The People: And Other Uncollected Fiction”, p.10, Macmillan

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• The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. Many people are aware of these principles, but very few can put them into practice. Every day I hear someone say, 'I'm to fat. I need to lose twenty-five pounds, but I can't. I never seem to improve.' I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak. I can lose ten to forty pounds rapidly, easily, painlessly, by simply setting my mind to it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Attitude, Hate, Hard Work

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

  Dogen

  Eye, Eight, Elbows

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• Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times.

  Richard Yates

  Men, Sales Person, Lunch

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• Osama bin Laden put out a new video. The timing of this video has some people upset, three days before we vote. It looks like he's trying to influence the election. And I'll tell you, it's not going to work. Americans know Osama bin Laden does not pick our president. The Supreme Court does.

  Bill Maher

  People, Upset, Trying

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• The Department of Homeland Security recommends a three-day supply of water consisting of one bottle per day for each person in your home. Plus one extra bottle to give you all something to kill each other over on day four.

  Jon Stewart

  Home, Giving, Water

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• A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.

  William Golding

  Animal, Men, Fire

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• There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.

  Edith Head

  Fashion, Past, West

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• [As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.

  Nora Roberts

  Discipline, Missing, Desire

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• God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is never worry, anxiety nor a fear of failure in our life.

  Anuj

  Heart, Worry, Anxiety

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• Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.

  Arthur Desmond

  Perfect, Wealth, Goodness

  "Rival Caesars". Book by Desmond Dilg (the joint pseudonym of Arthur Desmond and Will H. Dilg), 1903.

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• What we've been trying to do is difficult. You know it's difficult to win one, to win two. Madness to win three. But to try and come back to win it again should be impossible really.

  Brian Cody

  Winning, Two, Trying

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• In New York the other day, there was a pro-Martha Stewart rally. Only four people showed up ... and three of them were made out of crepe paper!

  Conan O'Brien

  New York, People, Paper

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• Here's some news from Afghanistan. We're sending more troops to seal up the borders. Can we try that here? Three months, 12,000 pounds of bombs and billions and billions of dollars and the highest ranking enemy we've captured so far is an American.

  David Letterman

  Enemy, Trying, Troops

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• The purest natural food for human beings would be fresh, uncooked food and nuts. A fare which consists of three-quarters of vegetable food and one-quarter meat would appear to be the most satisfactory.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Nuts, Vegetables, Meat

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• I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

  Allegra Huston

  Children, Dad, Reality

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• ... in the future a typical factory will host three workers: a man, a computer and a dog. The computer will do all the work. The man will feed the dog. And the dog's job? To bite the man - if he touches the computer.

  Todd G. Buchholz

  Dog, Jobs, Men

  Todd G. Buchholz (2004). “Bringing the Jobs Home: How the Left Created the Outsourcing Crisis--and how We Can Fix it”

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• My class is not a three ring circus.

  Hetty King

  Class, Circus, Rings

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• There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Successful, Two, People

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• If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person-only one- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it. Now...which person are you?

  Elias Chacour

  Issues, People, Giving

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• To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Flower, Thinking

  "The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures", Vol. 1, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library, 2006.

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• Major League Baseball's labor negotiations involve two paradoxes. The players' union's primary objective is to protect the revenues of a very few very rich owners - principally, the Yankees'. The owners' primary objective is a more egalitarian distribution of wealth. The union believes that unconstrained spending by the richest three teams pulls up all payrolls. Most owners believe that baseball's problems--competitive imbalance, the parlous financial conditions of many clubs--result from large and growing disparities of what are mistakenly treated as 'local' revenues.

  George Will

  Baseball, Team, Believe

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• Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by
  themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for
  ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Order, Class, Ordinary

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable
  three, Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Strong, Might, Newton

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

  Vin Scully

  Team, Winning, Games

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