Quotes with third-world

Quotes 721 till 740 of 3019.

  • Alexander Pope How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Woody Allen How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Karl Kraus How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Barry Schwartz How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Blaise Pascal How wonderful it is that a thing so evident as the vanity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say that it is foolish to seek greatness!
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Anne Frank How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Anais Nin How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Penelope Fitzgerald However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
    Source: Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Aaron Klug Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Blake Farenthold Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Fred A. Allen I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Freddie Mercury I always knew I was a star. And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
    Freddie Mercury
    British singer, songwriter and record producer (1946 - 1991)
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  • Mark Twain I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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