Groups Of Three Quotes

• Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.

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  Belva Plain

  Family   Grief   Blood  

  Belva Plain (2009). “Evergreen”, p.441, Dell

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• Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.

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  Amy Dickinson

  Women   Two   Groups  

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• You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.

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  Bill Peterson

  Funny   Circles   Guy  

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• no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

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  Rose Wilder Lane

  Self   Two   Groups  

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• Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

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  Joshua Foer

  Kings   Groups   Three  

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