Quotes with third-world

Quotes 2301 till 2320 of 3019.

  • Oscar Wilde There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Butler There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Seneca There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Boris Yeltsin There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Blaise Pascal There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Napoleon There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ben Barnes There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Douglas Everett There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
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  • Achille Poincelot There are some people who think that all the world should share their misfortune, although they do not share in the sufferings of anybody else.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • Joni Mitchell There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
    Joni Mitchell
    Canadian singer-songwriter (1943 - )
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  • Belle Boyd There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Machiavelli There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Confucius There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Carla Bley There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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  • Henry Ford There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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