Quotes with third-world

Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 3019.

  • Bernard Lown Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
    Source: Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
    Bernard Lown
     
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham Superior knowledge is a mistake; that which rules the world is superior ignorance.
    Source: The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Samuel Beckett Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Voltaire Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Billy Graham Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ben Affleck Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bill Skarsgard Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Syllables govern the world.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Josh Billings Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • William Shakespeare Take note! Take note, o world! To be direct and honest is not enough.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Jackson Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Bono Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Octavio Paz Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Max Frisch Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
    Max Frisch
    Swiss writer (1911 - 1991)
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  • Barbara Demick Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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