“With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during their courtship. All their instincts of drama come out freshly with their wives. The artist is he in whom this emotionality normally absorbed by sex is so strong that it claims a newer and more exclusive field of deployment. Its first creation is the Artist himself, a new sort of person; the creative man.” PeopleMenFirstsPersonsArtistStrongSexCreativeWifeCreationFieldsPoetDramaThirdsClaimsInstinctRateVitalityExclusiveCourtshipDeployment Author:Wyndham Lewis
“The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.” LastsGivenSpaceCommonRecordsAtheismEventsPerceptionDeterminationThirdsClaimsRegardFellowsVariousAppearancePositive AtheismNarrativeBlindnessPredecessorsNarratorsEvangelistsLocalityDesignation Author:David Friedrich Strauss
“The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a better claim to it than any third party (and any third party seeking to dispute my self-ownership must presuppose the principle of self-ownership in the first place since he is acting as a self-owner).” FirstsPersonsSelfFactsBodyPartyActingPrinciplesResourcesDirectThirdsBasesClaimsSeekingOwnersOwnershipDisputesScarceThird PartiesScarce ResourcesSelf Ownership Author:Stephan Kinsella
“As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.” ImportantMatterSchoolResponsibilityTeacherPeriodsThirdsClaimsNo Matter WhatAgreeEducateNutritionAlgebra Author:Lynda Resnick
“We do not know anything - this is the first. Therefore, we should be very modest - this is the second. Not to claim that we do know when we do not - this is the third. That's the kind of attitude I'd like to popularize. There is little hope for success.” KnowsShouldFirstsKindLittlesAttitudeThirdsClaimsModest Author:Karl Popper
“It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like, in my opinion, Eritrea, undoubtedly need to be considered a country of origin with a valid claim to asylum. And with a third group of states, like Nigeria for example, each individual case needs to be evaluated. Then there are also very controversial cases like Afghanistan. In any case, united European action is needed. This argument for Europeanization may sound utopian, but there is no alternative.” NeedsMayCountryStatesActionIndividualSoundUnitedOpinionCasesClearGroupsExampleNeededSafeArgumentThirdsClaimsAlternativesAfghanistanControversialNigeriaUtopianAsylumsBalkansEritrea Author:Paolo Gentiloni
“You've got to ask yourself, why won't Donald Trump release his tax returns? I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. Third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or maybe he doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantFirstsMayHas BeensReasonAsksMillionsRichStreetsWallReturnTrumpCoupleTaxesThirdsClaimsPaidReleaseCharitableDealingsTax ReturnsFederal Taxes Author:Hillary Clinton
“When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.” Has BeensEnoughHelpingMovingPartyThirdsClaimsIndependentBillionsMoving OnFundUpside DownSpillsThird PartiesWorld Upside DownMoving To Fast Author:Barack Obama
“Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!” IfsWorldBelieveWellsTwoChristianLiteratureHeavenChristThirdsClaimsCatholicDon't BelievePopulationParadigm Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get on an airplane [to the U.S.] and claim asylum...when you arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, they will say to you, 'OK, we'll give you a hearing on whether you deserve asylum. Show up in a year.' And two-thirds of the people never show up.” PeopleIfsWantGivingYearsTwoShowsNew YorkRight NowDeserveThirdsClaimsCarefulHearingImmigrationBordersAirplaneAirportsAsylums Author:Charles Schumer
“The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.” PeopleIfsBelieveSoulSpiritualLife IsSpiritualityLiteratureUnderstandingReligiousEternalThirdsClaims Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.” ShouldChangedThirdsClaimsWineGlassesSensationsObscureHeresyPalateSaturated Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin