“I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.” EarthChristianHeardCrossesThirdsSymbolsOne Time Author:Zack Snyder
“After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.” IfsHas BeensCountryEarthFallPracticeRecordsProudThirdsUnionsPhotographerRussiaJournalismCommunismJournalistClockSovietReportersBe ProudSoviet UnionCameraman Author:Daniel Silva
“Overpopulation is the problem of the third and fourth World; over-consumption is the problem of the West. The average American child this year will consume as much of the world's resources as twenty children born in India. Deliberate and calculated waste is the central aspect of the American economy. We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.” WorldYearsChildrenProblemEarthBornEconomyAirWasteResourcesBuiltAspectThirdsIndiaTwentiesWestAverageToxicFourthConsumptionConsumerismDeliberateOverconsumptionOverpopulationAmerican EconomyToxic Waste Author:Richard J. Foster
“The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.” FirstsEarthFireTreeBloodAngelThirdsGreenForestsGrassBurnedTrumpetsHailGreen Grass Author:John the Apostle
“On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.” WorldWayFirstsEarthNightFoundHeavenChristWonderCreationGardenStonesEmptyThirdsDiedGravesEveningDawnGardenerSemblanceNew EarthDaybreak Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them names which make the problems sound like they’re taking place in a different world: they make people not care about other people dying of starvation by calling the place the dying live “the third world.” PeopleWorldWantGivingHumansDifferentProblemCareEarthEvilNamesSoundLeaderDyingCallingThirdsTinyResolveStarvationThird WorldDifferent WorldsPeople Dying Author:Craig Stone
“It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat” FirstsPersonsEarthCenturyCivilizationThirdsWesternExtraordinaryEducatedExceptionFlatsWestern CivilizationEducated Person Author:Jeffrey Burton Russell
“Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.” PeopleThinkingBelieveWellsStillsEnoughEarthWaterSkyTheoryDevilThirdsHolesDimensionsFlatsCavesAccommodate Author:Peter J. Carroll
“The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.” LongTwoEarthHoursHalfFantasyOur LivesThousandThirdsAverageSecondsWakingSpinningDaydreamingFourteen Book:The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human Source: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No -- we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.” PeopleWorldEarthAmericaFightingBornLibertyRightsMilitarySonCitizensThirdsPropertySlaveDareRepublicFrozenPeasantsCzars Author:Andrew Jackson
“was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but was it higher than the cost over centuries in backward, underdeveloped communities, which still covered two-thirds of the earth and which still could not guarantee their populations daily bread?” LongStillsTwoEarthProcessCommunityCenturyRevolutionEvolutionHigherCostThirdsPopulationBreadKicksGuaranteesCoveredDaily Bread Author:Ella Winter