Quotes with third-world

Quotes 461 till 480 of 3019.

  • George Eliot Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Anthony Hecht Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Ben Bernanke China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Billy Graham Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Alan Dundes Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Carlo Ratti Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Arthur Peacocke Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Samuel Johnson Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Michael Harrington Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
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  • Bob Beauprez Colorado's collective shale deposits contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 trillion barrels of oil. That's almost as much as the entire world's proven oil reserves!
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Billy Graham Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Collange Christine Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
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  • Will Rogers Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • John Berger Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • James Magary Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Walter Bagehot Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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