Quotes with third-world

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  • Carlo Collodi At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.
    Source: Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Armstrong Williams At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bo Burnham At the time of 'Words, Words, Words,' I'm a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he's entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that's inherently a little bit ridiculous.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Ben Nicholson At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Clarence Darrow At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Cate Blanchett Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Baby, in a world without pity
    Do you think what I'm askin's too much
    I just want to feel you in my arms
    Share a little of that Human Touch.
    Source: Human Touch (1992) Human Touch
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Veeck Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Branch Rickey Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything 'even spikes on a new pair of shoes' but they will eventually... they are bound to.
    Source: In 1954
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Babe Ruth Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bette Davis Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • William Shakespeare Be patient, For the world is broad and wide.
    Source: Romeo and Juliet 3, 3
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Donne Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Louis de Bernieres Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Umberto Eco Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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