Quotes with third-world

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  • Ben Okri We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Mark Twain We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John F. Kennedy We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world
    Source: Q Magazine interview,Nov 2010
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Burnie Burns We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Brad Stone We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to the world or funding an entirely separate company to pursue solutions to disease and mortality. Amazon's one of the few other companies that thinks as big as Google does.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey We see the world not as it is, but as we are.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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  • Kofi Annan We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
    Source: Faceboek (2017)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • John Locke We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
    Source: Psychological types: or, The psychology of individuation (1926)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Carlos Gershenson We shouldn't see ourselves as 'controllers' of the world, but as 'actors' in the world.
    Source: Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • John Lennon We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bobby Wallace We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish. Footwork was more a part of the new position than it had been at third. I suddenly felt I had sprouted wings. A world of new possibilities opened for me.
    Bobby Wallace
     
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  • Gloria Steinem We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Dan Quayle We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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