Quotes with third-world

Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 3019.

  • Charles Edward Jerningham The importance of anything in the world is precisely the importance which we attach to it ourselves.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • George Eliot The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Booker T. Washington The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Arthur Erickson The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Carl Levin The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Virginia Woolf The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Mark Van Doren The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
    Mark Van Doren
    American poet, writer and critic (1894 - 1972)
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  • Douglas Engelbart The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.
    Intelligence in the Internet Age, New York Times 19-9-2005
    Douglas Engelbart
    American engineer and inventor (1925 - 2013)
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  • Billy Campbell The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Erich Fromm The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Leonard Cohen The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Joseph Edward Murphy The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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  • Edgar Quinet The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Bob Barr The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Allen Klein The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Armstrong Williams The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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