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“'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.”

Film Three Dark Thirty Zero Oscars Honored Competent Nominations Protagonists Crafty Best Picture Argo Zero Dark Thirty

Author:Ron Fournier

“It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.”

Years Values Three Taken Thirty Three Years Bangs

Author:Stirling Moss

“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.”

“Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.”

Stills Enough Age Three Given Enjoy Heard Danger Plenty Worried Thirty Seventies Deadline Utterance Oracles Nero

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.”

Ifs Made Said Two Three Chance Sea Example Ten Rivers Twenties Foundation Assuming Finals Caught Fishes Boat Thirty Lakes Fishing Forty Arrangements

Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“Everything is moderation, really. I don't really deprive myself of anything. But I try to balance it with healthy food choices. I am not real fond of exercise, so I try to get away with as little as possible which is about thirty minutes three times a week and I do a little weight training and cardio.”

Trying Littles Real Choices Three Week Minutes Balance Exercise Healthy Training Weight Thirty Get Away Moderation Three Times Healthy Food Cardio Weight Training Food Choices

Author:Martina McBride

“No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with all the colors of the rainbow thrown in for good measure. When twenty or thirty of us meet, it is as hard to find three or four with the same complexion as it would be catch greased lightning in a bottle.”

Hard Would Be Three Black White Four Groups Color Twenties Various Range Thirty Thrown Bottles Lightning Rainbow Complexion Colors Of The Rainbow

Author:Mary Church Terrell

“Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years...or as long as it takes to win.”

People Years Long Two Three Winning Months Twenties Excited Winner Thirty Three Years Thirty Years Three Months

Author:Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

“It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.”

Faces Three Four Twenties Eight Thirty Forty

Book:Us: A Novel

Source: Us: A Novel

“In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.”