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• There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Science, Light, Giving

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• The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.

  Humphry Davy

  Butterfly, Greek, Poet

  Sir Humphry Davy (1870). “Salmonia: Or, Days of Fly Fishing. With Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo”, p.218

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• A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Men, Two, Worship

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• The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Suffering, Misery

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• my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Doctors, Months, Pockets

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.97

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• It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, which is formed from the breath; third is rhythmica, which receives its numbers from the beat of the fingers. For sound is produced either by the voice, coming through the throat; or by the breath, coming through the trumpet or tibia, for example; or by touch, as in the case of the cithara or anything else that gives a tuneful sound on being struck.

  Isidore of Seville

  Music, Voice, Numbers

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• Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Names, Wife, Three Things

  'Hillingdon Hall' (1845) ch. 33

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• The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it.

  Prosper of Aquitaine

  Love, Dream, Regret

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• there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Years, Yesterday, Twenties

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• I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Girl, Mother, School

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• Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.

  Christopher McDowell

  Life, Mother, Dream

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• Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long.

  Vince Poscente

  Growing Up, Long, Tanks

  Vince Poscente (2002). “Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery”, Invinceaility Series

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• There are thousands of mantras. Everyone has favorites. I prefer three - Aum, Sring, and Kring.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Mantras

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• Working with passion is an engine that is unbelievable. A person with drive and passion does three times the job of another person. But it is not so much the quantity of the job; that is not the point. The point is that they draw crowds; they have followers; they push, and lead, and so achieve much more.

  Dov Seidman

  Jobs, Passion, Crowds

  Dov Seidman (2011). “How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything”, p.295, John Wiley & Sons

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• On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Loss, Civilization, Creative

  A Study of History (D. C. Somervell abridgement), bk. 4, ch. 13 (1947)

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• Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, War, Hands

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• You have control over three things - what you think, what you say, and how you behave. To make a change in your life, you must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you possess in shaping the form of your life.

  Sonia Friedman

  Powerful, Thinking, Tools

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• In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Doubt, Mind

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• Everest wasn't like any other mountain. Only one of ten climbers who attempt the mountain stands on the summit. And for every three climbers who do scale the mountain, one dies trying. The facts aren't welcoming. But you don't plan a trip to Everest believing those facts will apply to you.

  Stacy Allison

  Believe, Trying, Mountain

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• Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinsters. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Husband, Men, Two

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• An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Taken, Self

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• In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught. On the contrarty, most offenders had been charged with and/or convicted of from one to three victims. In the interviews I have done, they have admitted to roughly 10 to 1,250 victims. What was truly frightening was that all the offenders had been reported before by children, and the reports had been ignored.

  Anna C Salter

  Children, Done, Interviews

  Anna C. Salter (2004). “Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

  Kinky Friedman

  Lying, Writing, Heart

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• In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Cutting, Knives

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami. Chapter Five, "Oshima", 2002.

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• Nobody should be hitting lotto for 36 million dollars when we got people starving in the streets. That is not idealistic, that's just real. That is just stupid. There's no way Michael Jackson, or whoever should have thousands, millions, billions of dollars and we got people broke with two-three jobs and still can't pay bills on time. There's no way! No way these people should have planes when people don't have houses, apartments, shacks, drawers, pants!!!

  Tupac Shakur

  Jobs, Real, Stupid

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