Quotes with third-world

Quotes 2961 till 2980 of 3019.

  • Arthur Peacocke For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Antonio Porchia He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Antonin Artaud Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us - everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Napoleon If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Betsy Beers In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.
    Betsy Beers
    American television and film producer (1957 - )
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  • Bruno Rossi In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
    Bruno Rossi
     
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  • Adele In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Andre Breton In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Helen Keller My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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