317 Quotes About Three

  • Author Jacques Barzun
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    A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.

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  • Author James Boswell
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    I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.

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  • Author Joanne Boyle
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    These are going to be tough games. UCLA's got their big three kids. We are going to have to make them work for their shots. We want them to take tough shots.

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  • Author Matsuo Bashō
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    He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

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  • Author Mayim Bialik
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    I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.

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  • Author Paolo Bacigalupi
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    Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.

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  • Author Richard Francis Burton
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    All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

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