Quotes with third-world

Quotes 2521 till 2540 of 3019.

  • John Kenneth Galbraith Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Britney Spears Traveling around the world is really strenuous for me, being in a different bed every night, flying and everything.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Blake Mycoskie Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, so I get to be social, but it's hard to have the deep meaningful relationships, especially an intimate one. With my guy friends, I can show up once a month and go to dinner with them and they're happy.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Ben Parr Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Felix E. Schelling True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.
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  • Pliny the Elder True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Socrates True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bayard Taylor True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Try now to answer my third riddle. By what rule to you tell a copy from an original?
    Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 52
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ben Hecht Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Betty Williams Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • B. F. Skinner Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Brad Feld Twitter has always been that refreshing place where I can quickly find out what is going on in my tech world. I follow mostly entrepreneurs and VCs - some who I know and some who I don't know. I have a few companies in my feed. But no newspapers, no magazines, and no mainstream media.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Baldwin Spencer Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
    Baldwin Spencer
    Antigua and Barbuda politican and labour leader (1948 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Typhoon Haiyan showed the entire world how vulnerable the Philippines as well as other developing countries are to natural disasters.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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