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• A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

  Alber Elbaz

  Song, Book, Writing

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• Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.

  Hal Higdon

  Running, Peak Performance, Ready

  Hal Higdon (2011). “Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide: Advice, Plans, and Programs for Half and Full Marathons”, p.157, Rodale

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• By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Real, Educational, Assessment

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• I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

  Vijender Singh

  Sports, Thinking, Talking

  "I am happy with my preparations: Vijender Singh". Interview, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. June 29, 2012.

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• If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.

  Art Alexakis

  Want, Minutes, Ifs

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• New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.

  Jesse Schell

  Brother, Track, Normal

  "Why games will take over our lives". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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• I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

  Fatima Siad

  Years, People, Want

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• John Kerry went duck hunting and he's doing that to fulfill his campaign pledge to hunt down the ducks and kill them wherever they are! Kerry did pretty well; he came back with four ducks and three Purple Hearts.

  David Letterman

  Heart, Hunting, Purple

  "Trail Tales: Gore Returns to Florida". "Late Show" with David Letterman, www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2004.

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• They say John Kerry is the first Democratic presidential candidate in history to raise $50 million in a three-month period. Actually, that's nothing. He once raised $500 million with two words: 'I do.'

  Jay Leno

  Two, Presidential, Months

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• Exercise is not enough. Working out three times a week is not enough. Being active throughout the day is what keeps you healthy.

  Tom Rath

  Exercise, Work Out, Healthy

  Tom Rath (2013). “Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes”, p.14, Missionday, LLC

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• By the time Buffy finished its Bay Area theatrical run - including a two-month stint at the dollar theater - I had seen the movie well over three dozen times. I was in love.

  Mira Grant

  Running, Two, Bay Area

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• I wont deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

  Heidi Julavits

  Writing, Curiosity, Inward

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• I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Years, Minutes, Berkeley

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• One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

  Robert Bly

  Children, Rap, Men

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• In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.

  Alex Shoumatoff

  Cranes, Continents

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• Texas governor Rick Perry has been in the race only three days, and he's already blowing away the competition like it is a trespassing coyote.

  Stephen Colbert

  Race, Texas, Competition

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• A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated Mithras' primeval act. The initiate was baptized in its blood, partaking of its life-giving properties. It may be noted that this part of the ceremonial closely resembled the ritual of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother of Asia Minor, which had been brought to Rome three centuries before Christ.

  Ninian Smart

  Mother, Baptized In, Rome

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• A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

  Denton Cooley

  Successful, Men, Names

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• Fish and guests in three days are stale.

  John Lyly

  Modern Life, Guests, Fishes

  John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”

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• Of the 2,000,000 Armenians in Turkey in 1914, one million have been slaughtered, and the survivors only 130,000 remain in Turkey and the rest are refugees and exiles. Armenian property losses are valued at over 5,000,000,000 dollars are more than three fourths of the estimated wealth of the Armenian race.

  Herbert Adams Gibbons

  Loss, Turkeys, Race

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• "People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."

  Charles Dickens

  Past, People, Water

  David Copperfield ch. 30 (1850)

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• Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader read three kinds of pattern at once; code moves the reader from a static to an active, interactive and looped domain; while algebraic topology allows us to read qualitative forms and their transformations.

  Stephanie Strickland

  Moving, Writing, Poetry

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• If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, Believe, Doctors

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• There are three things you need to live abundantly: awareness, imagination and gratitude.

  Sonia Choquette

  Gratitude, Imagination, Needs

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• The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Years, House, Independence

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.12

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