Quotes with third-world

Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 3019.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Beckett Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Blaise Pascal Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bert McCracken Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Billy Beane Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Mark Twain Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Billy Graham Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ruth Benedict Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
    Ruth Benedict
    American anthropologist and folklorist (1887 - 1948)
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  • Samuel Butler Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Albert Ellis Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Angela Carter Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bertrand Russell Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Allen White Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Hegel Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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