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“In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.”

World Has Beens Hard Used Passion Three Half Achievement Empathy Excuse Obstacles Divorce Motherhood Traps Three Times Marriage And Divorce

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

“Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows that money is money, anybody who votes it to be gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three.”

Knows Order Three Differences Money Millions Crazy Taxes Vote

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.”

Thinking Humans Book Three Asks Minutes Subjects Ignorance Conversation Tables Boredom Thoughtful Dull Speakers Shocking Emphasis Human Thought Table Of Contents

Author:Stendhal

“When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.”

Men Two Running Three Women Risk Betrayed Three Times Mistress Adultery Being Betrayed

Book:The Red and the Black: World Classics

Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics

“Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered together! It is like an old tree with shoots, And with some branches rotted and falling.”

Together Fall Three House Generations Tree Oppression Branches Adolescence Hideous Old Trees Three Generations

Book:Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

“When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.”

Said Three Language Brother Kings My Family Ships Manners Crew Royalty Dukes Wales Coarse Plymouth

Author:Horace Walpole

“Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.”

Ifs Pain Together Three Found Results Quality Taste Judgment Criticism Critics Depth Good Sense Pedants Pedantry Taste And Judgment

Author:Horace Walpole

“Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.”

Firsts Ideas Feelings Past Three Energy Quality Elements Thirds Infinite Tendencies Sensations Categories Relative Finite

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans--who were not allowed to learn to read and write--and on the Native Americans, who were simply not allowed.”

Writing Country Values Three Century Ignorance Ancient Traditional Native Speakers Native American American Values

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.”

Use Three Difficult Forget Secret Injury Leisure Things In Life Difficult Things

Author:Bruce Lee

“After working in cities for nearly 40 years, I am telling you that every city can improve its quality of life in less than three years, no matter the scale or the financial conditions.”

Years Matter Three Cities Quality Conditions Financial Scales Three Years Quality Of Life

Author:Jaime Lerner

“My wife hates the beard. When we dated, I would grow it out during duck season. She said she could handle anything for three months - but now I have it all the time.”

Said Hate Three Grows Wife Months Seasons My Wife Handle Ducks Beard Three Months

Author:Jase Robertson

“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

“I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.”

Ifs Knows Way Matter Would Be Three Given Wish Influence Policy Exercise One Day Spokes Three Wishes

Book:Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays

Source: Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays

“I look at the natural geological record as a history of the world imperfectly kept and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines.”

Source: The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 10: The Foundations of The Origin of the Species: Two Essays Written in 1842 and 1844

“If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly have been said to have done so instinctively.”

Ifs Years Littles Has Beens Said Done Might Three Practice Instinct Tunes Three Years Three Year Olds

Book:On the Origin of Species

Source: On the Origin of Species

“There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.”

Has Beens Ideas Order Turns Three Causes Chance Creative Creative Ideas

Book:The Common Sense of Science

Source: The Common Sense of Science

“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

“Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.”

World Mean Two Three Next Water Numbers Cases Impossible Missing Products Quantity Accurate Counting Measurement Tomatoes Gallons Discontinuity Integers

Author:Gregory Bateson

“Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.”

“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

“The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.”

Years Religion Three Agree Victim Survivor Three Years Holocaust Frank Gathering Chairman Baptized Proxy Holocaust Survivor

Author:Maureen Dowd

“No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. The murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. And there's nothing inevitable about it. It comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. And it falls upon us to make it different.”

“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

“Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here”

Three

Author:B. B. King

“One possessed a thousand and three women (in Spain alone), the other only one. But it is multiplicity that is impoverished, whilethe entire world is concentrated in a single being infinitely possessed. Tristan no longer needs the world--because he loves! While Don Juan, always loved, cannot love in return. Hence his anguish and his frenzied course.”

World Needs Three Courses Return Thousand Possessed Anguish Spain Multiplicity Don Juan Juan

Book:Love Declared: Essays on the Myths of Love

Source: Love Declared: Essays on the Myths of Love

“(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.”

“There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.”

Way Three Calling Ruins Gambling Technicians Three Ways

Author:Georges Pompidou

“There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.”

People Humans Three Individual Social Liberty History Economic Cry Exercise Determination Lays Fingers Philosopher Myth Theme Good People Continuity Individual Liberty

Author:Michel Foucault

“My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.”

Three Brown Chamberlain

Author:Dick Schaap

“The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.”

Art Three Actors Understanding Acting Essence Contemplating Phases

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.”

Children Hard Three Neighbor Servant Hypocrisy Pious Hard Life Philanthropist Opportunism

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.”

People Thinking Persons Country Seems Together Certain Three Animal Intelligent Stupidity Ass Quantity Intelligent Person

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“They wrote that I'd gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating three guys at once!”

Guy Three Lost Week Summer Dating Pounds

Author:Yasmine Bleeth

“When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really hard, another to work on moderately hard, and the third one just to absorb. In my case, I never showed up to the latter class, taught by Robert Gunning, on Several Complex Variables. Several Complex Variables (Cn) was starting to get vary fashionable then, but I decided to specialize in n=1/2.”

Hard School Science Three Courses Class Cases Taught Decided Thirds Mathematics Complexes Starting Latter Graduates Vary Fashionable Variables Graduate School Princeton

Author:Richard Askey

“I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α , β, γ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".”

Science Three Involved Mathematics Add Lawyer Application Probability Coins Patents Algorithms

Author:Jennifer Tour Chayes

“In the old physics, three times two equals six and two times three equals 6 are reversible propositions. Not in quantum physics. Three times two and two times three are two different matters, distinct and separate propositions.”

Two Different Matter Science Three Six Mathematics Physics Quantum Propositions Three Times Quantum Physics

Author:Paul Auster

“I wasn't even aware of the Year of the Family. I couldn't give a toss. These things - the year of the family, the year of the three-legged dog. I think it's all trash.”

Thinking Giving Years Three Family Dog Trash Toss

Author:Roddy Doyle

“I was sick of people making fun of my hair and so I cut it off and I've got much more attention than ever before. It was like when Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1906 - three times more people came to see where it used to be.”

People Used Three Fun Attention Cutting Hair Sick Used To Be Three Times Stolen Mona Lisa Louvre

Author:Emo Philips

“... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.”

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.”

“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.”

“Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.”

“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

“... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.”

Shows Three Fashion Revolution Paris Movie Three Things Backdrop Fashion Show Love Fashion

Book:A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960

Source: A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960

“You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.”

Needs God Three Enemy Poet Lovers

Author:Jose Bergamin

“One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.”

Culture Three Father Capable Daughter Red Piano Encounters Embarrassment Piano Playing Schumann

Author:Alfred Doblin

“The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.”

Two Values Three Force Cities Balance Discipline Lessons Strategy Chaos Architecture Block Distinction Anarchy Formal Irrelevant Fluid Manhattan Builder Grids Metropolis

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.”

Ifs Littles I Can Two Lying Night Three Bits Hours Watches Tvs Little Bit Relax Afternoon Exhausted Naps Night Time

Author:China Machado

“For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best interests of his constituents and our country. From the committee room to the Senate chamber, Senator Specter offered a voice of reason and passion in every debate - always willing to reach across the aisle and work across party lines to get the job done, regardless of political gamesmanship or gain.”

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