Quotes with third-world

Quotes 2921 till 2940 of 3019.

  • Bono You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • James Baldwin You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
    Source: Doom and glory of knowing who you are (1963)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Hermann Hesse You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Henry Ford You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • James Allen You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • George Bernard Shaw You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
    Source: O'Flaherty V.C. (1919)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Percy Ross You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
    Percy Ross
    American businessman (1916 - 2001)
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  • Bill Gates You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong...
    Source: Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Carole King You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
    And show the world all the love in your heart
    The people gonna treat you better,
    You're gonna find, yes you will,
    That you're beautiful as you feel.
    Source: Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Allen Klein Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Carl Honore Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Thomas Traherne Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Earl Nightingale Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Ward [The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Babe Ruth [Written by Ruth in a St. Mary's hymnal, at the age of fifteen:] George H Ruth World's worse singer, world's best pitcher.
    Source: Inscription in hymnbook
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Twas never merry world since lowly feigning was Galled compliment.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Santayana A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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