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“In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which meant that they'd had at least three years of education because it was in third grade that people started penmanship in the 19th century. And of course black people could get killed if they got caught teaching themselves to read in some parts of the country.”

People Ifs Men Years Country Three Courses Black Teaching Century Produce Percent Thirds Caught Fifty Grades Forty Black People Three Years 19th Century Signatures Third Grade Penmanship

Author:Robert Hass

“There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer bomb, which destroys the principle of reality itself - not the actual object - and rebuilds it, and finally the third bomb is the demographic one. Some experts have found out that in five thousand years from now, the weight of the population will be heavier than the weight of the planet. That means that humanity will constitute a planet of its own!”

Years Firsts Mean Reality Humanity Three Found Principles Five Objects Planets Thousand Computer Thirds Weight Population Experts Bombs Digital Thousand Years Demographics Atomic Bomb

Author:Paul Virilio

“My view on well-being and fulfillment comes from Maslow and positive psychology, and that is that you're satisfying three sets of needs. First need is physiological and safety needs: Got to satisfy those first. And the second is you got to satisfy your community needs because we're social animals, and if we don't have that, we're empty and we don't have people to share knowledge and bounce things off of, and challenge ourselves. And then the third is the idea is to find a calling.”

“I have a funny relationship to language. When I came to California when I was three I spoke Urdu fluently and I didn't speak a word of English. Within a few months I lost all my Urdu and spoke only English and then I learned Urdu all over again when I was nine. Urdu is my first language but it's not as good as my English and it's sort of become my third language. English is my best language but was the second language I learned.”

Firsts Three Lost Speak Language Months Thirds Nine California Spokes Funny Relationship Urdu

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Hamas must agree to first recognize Israel, second to end all violence, third to accept past agreements. Try to find a mention of the fact that the United States and Israel reject all three of those. They obviously don't recognize Palestine, they certainly don't withdraw the use of violence or the threat of it - in fact they insist on it - and they don't accept past agreements, including the road map.”

Trying Firsts Ends States Facts Use Past Three United Accepting United States Violence Thirds Agree Threat Including Israel Agreement Rejects Maps Palestine Hamas Road Maps

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a second or third draft I wrote insert pages on a typewriter. But I got rid of all my typewriters about three or four novels ago and now I do everything by hand. I write by hand because it makes me go slow and going slow is what I like.”

Writing Firsts Hands Three Novel Four Written Pages Thirds Typewriters Typing Insert

Author:John Irving

“When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.”

Three Easy Numbers Four Football Basketball Baseball Thirds Pitcher Quarterback Starters Versatile Playing Baseball Number Three

Author:Future

“Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. But often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.”

“I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.”

“There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.”

Long Three Sides Term Memories Forget Inspiring Effects Thirds Long Term Short Term Acid Side Effects Three Sides Short Term Memory

Author:Timothy Leary

“There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.”

Firsts Kind Three Literature Appreciate Thirds Intelligent Intelligence Useless Excellent

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.”

“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”

Source: Gone to Soldiers: A Novel

“Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.”

People Thinking Writing Wells Made Film Three Audience Thirds Theater Editing Toronto Premieres Birthplace Birth Place

Author:Jason Reitman

“To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?”

“The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.”

Art Two Sometimes Three Amount Equal Thirds Plus Works Of Art Alchemy Artwork

Author:Jerry Saltz

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

Source: 101 Facts of life

“There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.”

Firsts Important Three Leadership Secret Thirds Patience Patient Be Patient Having Patience Dirty Secrets

Author:Chuck Tanner

“I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.”

People Giving Two Three Teach Thirds Dollars Kicks

Author:William Allen White

“My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.”

Years Firsts Long Has Beens Used Three Careers Internet Thirds Investment Investing Firm Software Bubbles Phases Venture Mobile Euclid

Author:Fred Wilson

“And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart.”

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.”

Spirit Turns Three Thirds Nine Thirty Fifty Usual Conform Valentine Valentine's Day Eighteen Kismet

Book:How They Met and Other Stories

Source: How They Met and Other Stories

“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.”

“If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.”

Ifs Firsts Three Heaven Wonder Missing Thirds Conservative Expected

Author:Billy Joel

“The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?”

Firsts Three Known Civilization Majors Survival Thirds Instance Lunch Phases Inquiry Galaxy Sophistication Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide H2g2

Book:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Payton grinned. “You must be Chase.” As she extended her hand in introduction, she took the opportunity to give him a more thorough once-over. He had dark wavy hair and warm brown eyes. Very Pat-rick Dempsey/McDreamy-esque. Good build, not terribly tall, maybe only five-ten-ish, but since Payton measured in at exactly five-three and one-third inch, she could work with this”

Giving Hands Eye Three Opportunity Dark Five Hair Ten Thirds Warm Brown Tall Inches Introduction Thorough Brown Eyes Mcdreamy

Book:Practice Makes Perfect

Source: Practice Makes Perfect

“The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.”

Mind Made Two Ideas Real Together Three Simple Views Existence Thirds Relation Complexes Setting Settings Abstraction Compounds Accompany Separating Combining Uniting Simple Ideas

Author:John Locke

“Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.”

Source: The Moviegoer

“About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him - and I didn’t know how potent that part might be - that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.”

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Author:Stephenie Meyer

“There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.”

People Firsts Three Found Type Findings Thirds Seeking Foolish Unhappy Rational

Author:Blaise Pascal

“In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.”

Way Three Hours Type Husband Thirds Sick Holes Extras Bags Maps Plastic Wales Carrier Laid Back Devon

Author:Julie Burchill

“Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.”

Ifs Firsts Said Two Action Three Given Numbers Quality Information Thirds Leisure Interaction Number Three Necessary Things Fahrenheit 451 Book

Book:Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”

Firsts Moments Body Lasts Three Names Thirds Function Graves Cease Existentialism That Moment Last Time

Author:David Eagleman

“Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice. 'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?' 'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit...”

Knows Should Doe Said Reason Three Voice Lows Thirds Murder Fingers Profit Revenge Commit Should I

Author:Meg Cabot

“You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.”

“And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.”

Firsts Lying Three Black Destiny Built Concern Concerned Thirds Profound Conviction Cousin

Book:Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress

Source: Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress

“...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.”

Heart Ends Three Causes Natural Thirds Died Daggers Bunk Drizzt

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”

Knows Years Two School Three Parent Family Thirds Three Years Two Best Friends

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.”

Way Life Firsts Kind Success Three Inspire Ultimate Thirds Be Kind Thank You Three Ways Ultimate Success

Author:Fred Rogers

“Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator. The third in place of a signature, was a lightning bolt surrounded by fog. Beside the drawing, someone had scrawled in inch-high letters 10 A.M. Tori snatched it from me and turned it over. "So where's the message?" "Right there." I pointed from picture to picture. "It says: Chloe, I'll be back, Simon.”

Bigs Three Left Middle Messages Letters Thirds Corners Drawing Ghost Inches Lightning Fog Signatures Bolts Chloe Schwarzenegger Lightning Bolts Salutations

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away.”

“The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”

Men Dies Three Waiting Sound Silence Cutting Flower Rivers Stones Thirds Patient Heavy Wide Appropriate Autumn Smooth Wrapping Name Of The Wind

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.”

Two Three Thirds Congress Idiot Scoundrels

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“We're told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable. We see ourselves as a nation of extroverts - which means that we've lost sight of who we really are. Depending on which study you consult, one third to one half of Americans are introverts - in other words, one out of every two or three people you know.”

People Knows Mean Two Three Lost Nations Half Study Thirds Sight Introvert One Half Extroverts Sociable

Author:Susan Cain

“We was half stupid, a third lucky, and three-quarters ferocious.”

Three Half Stupid Lucky Thirds Quarters

Book:The Sacrifice (The Enemy Book 4)

Source: The Sacrifice (The Enemy Book 4)

“Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. The second is production blocking: only one person can talk or produce an idea at once, while the other group members are forced to sit passively. And the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one's peers.”

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”

“I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.”

Inspirational I Can Remember Faces Three Names Memories Comedy Trouble Thirds Three Things

Author:Fred Allen

“Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.”

Firsts Mean Three Opinion Knowledge Degrees Thirds Instruments Instinct Intuition Illumination Hunches Dialectics

Author:Plotinus

“Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.”

Needs Firsts Ends Self Three Felt Process Growth Change Decision Results Careers Conscious Thirds Void Dedication Things Change Three Things Dissatisfaction End Results Change And Growth Fill The Void

Book:Love

Source: Love

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