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  • Alice Munro In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Russell Baker Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Diana Ross Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
    Diana Ross
    American singer, songwriter and actress (1944 - )
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  • Srully Blotnick Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.
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  • Brian Tracy Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Alexander Haig It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Ruskin It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • James Baldwin It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Ezra Pound It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Mark Twain It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Helen Rowland It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
    A Guide to Men (1922)
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Robert Peel It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
    Robert Peel
    English politician and Prime Minister (1788 - 1850)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings It takes three to make a child.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Anthony Doerr It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Hank Aaron It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
    Hank Aaron
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder (1934 - )
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  • Mark Twain It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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