Quotes with third-world

Quotes 1181 till 1200 of 3019.

  • Vita Sackville-West It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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  • William James It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • William Hazlitt It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Buddha It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Antonio Guterres It is, for me, clear that the world needs a United States that is engaged in security issues, in development issues, in human rights issues. The contribution of the United States for global affairs is absolutely crucial. And the cooperation with the U.N. is very important from our perspective.
    Antonio Guterres
    Portuguese politician and UN Secretary General (1949 - )
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  • Henry James It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Henry Miller It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Blake Mycoskie It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Bill Vaughan It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin Graham It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
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    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Robert Bolt It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
    Robert Bolt
     
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  • Woody Allen It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Boris Pasternak It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Alice Koller It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
    Alice Koller
     
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  • H. Ross Perot It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Barack Obama It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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