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Source: The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.”

Men Shows Hands Three Four Ambition Perfection Revenge Villain Honorable Persecution Earnest Scoundrels Respectability Honorable Man Probity

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”

Years Spirit Three Pleasure Race Four Blood Land Tears Hundred Riches Welcome Islands Paradise Splits Haiti

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“I blame the newspapers because every day they call our attention to insignificant things, while three or four times in our lives,we read books that contain essential things. Once we feverishly tear the band of paper enclosing our newspapers, things should change and we should find--I do not know--the Pensées by Pascal!”

Knows Should Book Three Attention Knowledge Four Our Lives Tears Band Essentials Paper News Blame Newspapers Pens Insignificant Pascal Insignificant Things

Author:Marcel Proust

“I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?”

Men Should Three Four Balls Eight Nine Should I Pitcher Strikeouts

Author:Stan Coveleski

“Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.”

Long Two Enough Age Success Time Three Hope Wish Change Realizing Courage Four Succeed

Author:Earl Nightingale

“In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling's Rules. We had all been using Pauling's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were.”

Writing Years Used Three My Own Saws Four Fields Structure Various Work Out Rays Four Years Laboratory Bothered Minerals Dodge

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“When I get up in the morning, I stay nude for three or four hours. If I really feel like getting formal, I'll put on board shorts.”

Ifs Feels Body Three Hours Morning Four Get Up Boards Formal Shorts

Author:Iggy Pop

“Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.”

“A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies--the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing,the impaired baby, who changes each day, and the mysterious real baby whose presence is beginning to be evident in the motions of the fetus.”

Real Dream Three Perfect Four Baby Months Rewards Musical Mysterious Each Day Pregnant Evident Spouse Fetus Pregnant Women

Book:TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE

Source: TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE

“Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?”

Years Reality Earth Science Three Politics Nature Party History Four Generations Theory Prove Climate Billions Ideology Tea Free Speech Hurricanes Tea Party

Author:Rand Paul

“I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.”

Ideas Running Three Millions Four Week Prompts

Author:Nina Conti

“In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.”

Children Play Age Today Used Three Games Four Adults Infancy Pastime Only Child Specialization Children Playing

Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“The important point there is that when people talk about a mean temperature rise of say two, three or four degrees that's a sort of global average which really is a signature of large scale change in climatic patterns.”

People Mean Two Important Three Four Degrees Average Patterns Scales Temperature Signatures Large Scale

Author:Martin Rees

“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.”

Giving Persons Home Three Water Four Security Extras Department Plus Bottles Homeland Homeland Security Department Of Homeland Security

Author:Jon Stewart

“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!”

People Made Three Four New York Paper Crepes

Author:Conan O'Brien

“The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals.”

“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.”

Years Moments Three Hours Five Four Week Tomorrow Hundred Twenties Seven Yesterday Sixty Seven Days

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“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.”

“Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.”

Thinking Three Easy Views Brain Four Evolution Point Of View Mathematical Dimensions

Author:Stephen Hawking

“So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!”

Looks Three Voice Behinds Darkness Four Doors Feet Hero Adults Treats Tricks Tall Seconds Imaginary Halloween Barbarians Conan Trick Or Treat

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four operations in a direct manner, without the aid of any of the other three.”

Three Four Equal Direct Add Aids Contrary Operations Divides Engines Facility

Author:Ada Lovelace

“It is often said that we are just a moment in time! In that case, here is the best challenge for man: To change this! To be two moments in time; three moments in time; four moments in time; to be in the whole of the time!”

Men Said Two Whole Moments Three Change Challenges Cases Four Moments In Time

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I try to go to the gym three to four times a week and mix it up with yoga or a personal trainer.”

Trying Three Four Week Yoga Gym Trainers

Author:Nicole Trunfio

“I'm a Jew. Thirty-three is when Christ died. So though I'm a Jew, in the back of my mind I still think that I gotta get it done before I'm thirty-four because well, I don't know why. He got it done before He was thirty-four.”

Thinking Knows Mind Wells Stills Done Three Christ Four Died Jew Thirty Of My Mind Get It Done

Author:Jack Black

“I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.”

“You get the most 3D effect when it starts about three to four seconds, that's when it starts feeling 3D. And then what you do, quick shots are always flat.”

Feelings Three Four Effects Shots Flats Seconds

Author:Michael Bay

“We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.”

People Wells Used Three Lost Four Happened Example Skills Meals Buying Breasts Chickens

Author:Michael Pollan

“Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.”

People Thinking Doe Made Done Film Three Love Is Millions Four Fit Cost Office Projects Models Dollars Boxes Studios Making Money Investors Twilight Financing Box Office

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.”

Two Running School Three Four Crazy College High School Mad Girlfriend Steady

Author:Robin Williams

“I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.”

Writing Whole Stories Order Three Next Bits Novel Four Paper Pages Picks Filled Cards Gaps Chapters Consecutive

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.”

Humans Three Human Beings Four Food Amount Benefits Cooking Wine Glasses Illness Excellent Culinary Remedy Preservation Small Amounts

Book:Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

Source: Moses Maimonides' Treatise on Asthma

“Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.”

People Knows Way Needs Feels Different Use Might Together Certain Three Force Bits Five Four Singing Picks Technique Singers Combination No Point Alchemy Interchange

Author:Bob Dylan

“I'm an actor who loves to direct film, if I find something that I'm compelled to do and want to spend three or four years doing. I really love the process, though. I might have to just say, "Yeah, I want to direct that," because I want to direct something, but that's just not the way my being is. It's got to be a necessity for me, otherwise I'll just keep acting.”

Ifs Way Want Years Might Film Three Actors Process Acting Four Direct Yeah Four Years Compelled

Author:Ed Harris

“I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I'm Clyde. That's when everything is just settled. In the daytime it's chaotic. Everybody just goin' nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere.”

Writing Night Three Morning Four Car Late Seats Drivers Chaotic Passengers Daytime Late Night Getaways Passenger Seat

Author:Kevin Gates

“My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.”

Years Firsts Littles I Can Home Age Young Three Memories Four Feet Balls Four Years Young Age Neighbourhoods

Author:Lionel Messi

“People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.”

People Thinking Three Games Sports Four Red England Series New England

Author:Carlton Fisk

“I ordered a club sandwich, but I'm not even a member. "I like my sandwiches with three pieces of bread." "Well, so do I!" "Then let's form a club." "OK, but we need some more stipulations. Instead of cutting the sandwich once, let's cut it again. Yes, four triangles, arranged in a circle, and in the middle we will dump chips." "How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?" "I'm for 'em!" "Well, this club is formed."”

Needs Feels Wells Humor Funny Form Three Pieces Four Cutting Middle Members Clubs Circles Bread Ems Chips Sandwiches Dump Triangles Toothpicks Stipulations

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“This product that was on TV was available for four easy payments of $19.95. I would like a product that was available for three easy payments and one complicated payment. We can't tell you which payment it is, but one of these payments is going to be hard. The mailman will get shot, the envelope will not seal, the stamp will be in the wrong denomination. The final payment must be made in wampum.”

Made Hard Humor Funny Three Easy Four Tvs Products Shots Finals Available Complicated Stamps Payment Seals Envelopes Denominations Mailman

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.”

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