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Three great ways to lose a lover:
Talk to him the way your mother talked to your father.
Berate him in public because everybody loves an audience.
Contrast him to your friends, and compare him with his predecessors.

Perry Brass

Mother, Father, Way

Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.31, Perry Brass

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Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral.

Andrew Schneider

Roots, Funeral, Biggie

"Fictional character: Chris Stevens". "Northern Exposure/ Our Wedding", www.imdb.com. 1992.

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From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in the order of their importance, monopoly in the control of the circulating medium-money and credit, private property in land not based on occupancy and use, patent rights and copyrights, and tariffs.

Laurance Labadie

Order, Land, Rights

Laurance Labadie (1978). “Selected Essays”

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To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

Wallace Stevens

Games, Names, Guessing

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I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.

Anna Held

Life, Awards, Tears

"Luise Rainer, double Oscar winner, dies aged 104". www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2014.

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Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

Tallulah Bankhead

Scotch, Two, Brave

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I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

Grant Heslov

Roles, Lines, Want

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Bonnie and Clyde was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part of that from the ground up and investing three years of my life into seeing that show come to Broadway was really rigorous but also so exciting.

Laura Osnes

Years, Roles, Investing

"BWW Interviews: Two-Time Tony Nominee Laura Osnes Talks Masterclasses in Texas". Interview with Katricia Lang, www.broadwayworld.com. August 27, 2014.

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Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports
this view.

Shirley Chisholm

Children, Mean, Pride

Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.130, Take Root Media

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I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and existential worth, but not when you're three feet tall.

Richard Matheson

Feet, Soul, Essentials

"Fictional character: Scott Carey". "The Incredible Shrinking Man", www.imdb.com. February 22, 1957.

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Three weeks ago one of my dreams came true. I finally got to see something I always wanted to witness live. I finally saw someone get hit by a car... Nailed!

Dane Cook

Dream, Car, Saws

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I don't do any crazy diets. I take vitamins and eat three times a day.

Selena

Crazy, Vitamins, Diets

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Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that.

Selena

Girl, School, Gum

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Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times
and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.

Bobby Fischer

Winning, Player, Long

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To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

Jesse Owens

Nine, Yards, Hundred

Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1972). “I Have Changed”

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Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.

Leonard Ravenhill

Risk, Doe, Three Things

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I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

Ana Monnar

Mother, Jesus, Brother

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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

Om Puri

Theatre, Firsts, Lost

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On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally .

Ana Monnar

Mother, Children, Thank You God

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[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

David Lloyd George

Government, Fool, Staff

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The good news about fresh water is that, even after accounting for the larger volume of water that is unavailable to people from the hydrologic cycle, there is enough on a global scale to support current and anticipated populations on a sustainable basis... Three essential goals are dependable and safe supplies for people, protection and management of the environmental systems through which water moves, and efficient water use. Meeting these goals will require that fresh water not continue to be treated as a free good or as the principal means for disposing of human and industrial wastes.

Gilbert F. White

Moving, Mean, Water

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For three decades and longer we have been developing the ideas, science, and technological wherewithal to build a sustainable society. The public knows of these things only in fragments, but not as a coherent and practical agenda indeed the only practical course available. That is our fault and we should start now to put a positive agenda before the public that includes the human and economic advantages of better technology, integrated planning, coherent purposes, and foresight.

David W. Orr

Technology, Ideas, Environmental

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There are three times in a man's life when he has the right to yell at the moon-when he marries; when his children come; and when he finishes a job he had to be crazy to start.

Borden Chase

Jobs, Children, Crazy

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When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.

Julian of Norwich

Night, Years, Church

Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection,
Figures pedantical--these summer flies
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

William Shakespeare

Summer, Phrases, Affection

'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 407

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