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• This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies.

  Herman Cain

  Believe, African American, Black

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• Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

  David Cameron

  Fall, Taken, Self

  "David Cameron's EU speech - full text". www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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  Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

  Truman Capote

  Life, Birthday, Humorous

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• I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I had a crush on. I bought her a box of Valentine's Day chocolate. And I put it in her cubby with a note that said something like, "I am deeply in love with you, Your Secret Admirer." And I didn't sign my name.

  Steve Carell

  Crush, Girl, Love You

  "From "The Office" to the ark". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. June 17, 2007.

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• Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

  Benjamin Carson

  Intelligent, Names, People

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• We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Islamic, Democracy

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• I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

  Jimmy Carter

  White, House, Wish

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• More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

  Fidel Castro

  People, Suffering, World

  Fidel Castro (2002). “War, Racism and Economic Injustice: The Global Ravages of Capitalism”, Ocean Press (AU)

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• Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Girl, Drinking, Beer

  The Long Goodbye ch. 4 (1953)

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• They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

  Chris Christie

  Health, Years, Reform

  Chris Christie's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Ambition, Opportunity

  "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I), 55 BC.

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• The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Intelligent, Minorities

  Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), December 31, 2000.

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• When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'

  John Henrik Clarke

  Teacher, School, Years

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• I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Idols, Tv Shows, Proud

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• One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Reading, Sunday

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• Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Time, Powerful

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, p. 184, 1998.

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• What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, “I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.”

  Gail Collins

  Light, People, Wife

  "Journalist Gail Collins". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 4, 2012.

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• The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.

  Lauren Conrad

  Book, Stories, Done

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• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Reading, School, Kids

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• Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

  Ann Coulter

  Blessed, Two, Eight

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• I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.

  Noel Coward

  Class, Literature, Firsts

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• There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

  Quentin Crisp

  Winter, Thinking, Long

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• I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.

  Mark Cuban

  Country, Jobs, Hate

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Distance, Loss, Drawing

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is the best movie for a guy like me. A cerebral adventure. A moving story. A bunch of little green men.

  Tom DeLonge

  Moving, Adventure, Men

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