Quotes with third-world

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 3019.

  • Toni Morrison The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • John F. Kennedy The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Albert Einstein The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Camus The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Vaclav Havel The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.
    Describing a Mexican baroque church
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Boris Sidis The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.
    The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Bruce Jackson The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Audre Lorde The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bobby Orr The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Anatole France The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Big Pun The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Anacharsis The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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  • J. B. Priestley The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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