Quotes with third-world

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  • Ben Okri The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bill Gates The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Annie Dillard The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Robert Browning The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • William Butler Yeats The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Arthur Henderson The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bernard Mandeville Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
    To make a Great an Honest Hive.
    T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
    Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
    Without great Vices, is a vain
    Eutopia seated in the Brain.
    Source: The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Caitlin Moran There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Benjamin Booker There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Bill Maris There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Winston Churchill There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Jane Austen There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Dale Carnegie There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Anne Brontë There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Samuel Johnson There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bryan White There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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