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“Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.”

Three Waiting Simple Half Five Charity Saving Impulse Forty Quarters Sixty Saving Money

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.”

Book Three Reading Literature Names Half Principles Century Serious Asking Titles Sunset Recalls Love Literature

Author:Thomas Steinbeck

“I mean, hope doesn't get actualized in three and a half years. If that were the case, we'd be out of luck as a country.”

Ifs Years Mean Country Three Half Cases Luck Half A Year

Author:Michelle Obama

“Every man at three years old is half his height”

Men Years Three Half Every Man Height Three Years Three Year Olds

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The greatest element in life is not what occupies most of its time, else sleep would stand high in the scale. Nor is it what engrosses most of its thought, else money would be very high. The two or three hours of worship and preaching weekly has perhaps been the greatest signal influence on English life. Half an hour of prayer, morning or evening, every day, may be a greater element in shaping our course than all our conduct and all our thought.”

May Two Would Be Life Is Three Courses Hours Prayer Sleep Half Morning Greater Influence Elements Worship Scales Evening Preaching Our Thoughts Signals

Author:Peter Forsyth

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.”

People Ifs Book Matter Done Three Reading Understanding Half Study Hundred Consequence Capacity Towns Determined Lawyer Features Principal Salem

Book:The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.”

Two Three Hours Half Audience Exhausted Yawning

Author:Adam McKay

“From the time I was three and a half... as soon as I could stand on my own feet, I was given dance lessons.”

Three Given My Own Half Feet Lessons

Author:Rita Hayworth

“One of the challenges assembling the film was that gun fight went on for three and a half hours and we obviously couldn't spend three and a half hours of the film with one gun fight. It was trying to figure out the balance of how much an audience could take before they either became repulsed or desensitized or bored or just overwhelmed.”

Trying Film Fighting Three Hours Challenges Half Audience Figures Balance Gun Bored Overwhelmed Half Hours Assembling

Author:Peter Berg

“The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.”

Wells Three Father Half Study Judging Towns Eight Tutor Our Town

Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.”

Ifs Should Two Sometimes Bigs Might Running Three Water Half Sea Feet Lows Hundred Bottom Surface Torn Vessel Extending Reefs Iceberg

Author:Edward Smith