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“Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight.”

Men Want Firsts War Real Self Reason Home Today America Fighting Three Stuff Source Battle Thirds Army Self Respect Loved Ones Bullshit Clash Real Men

Author:George S. Patton

“I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.”

Wish Common Citizens Thirds Ruins Beer Whiskey Beverages

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.”

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Book:Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano

“When Nicklaus plays wells well, he wins. When he plays badly, he finishes second. When he plays terribly, he finishes third.”

Wells Play Winning Thirds Golf

Author:Johnny Miller

“I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a drawer full of hate letters from hundreds of elementary schoolchildren (with supportive cover letters from their science teachers) pleading with me to reverse my stance on Pluto. The file includes a photograph of the entire third grade of a school posing on their front steps and holding up a banner proclaiming, 'Dr. Tyson - Pluto is a Planet!'”

“Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.”

People Ifs World Feels Humans Made Pain Humanity United Common Poverty Forever Changed Emotional Thirds Third World Ending Poverty Common Humanity World Poverty

Author:Martin Sheen

“It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are really expressive; that is when they really smile. Hence I carefully watched my own infants. One of them at the age of forty-five days, and being in a happy frame of mind, smiled... I observed the same thing on the following day: but on the third day the child was not quite well and there was no trace of a smile, and this renders it probable that the previous smiles were real.”

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Author:Charles Darwin

“The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.”

Should Firsts Self Lasts Taken Greatness Elements Thirds Fundamentals Confused Interpretation Fourth Power Of Love Humbleness Servility

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.”

Knows World Long Two Poverty Rich Thirds Hunger Hungry Peaceful Third World Peaceful World World Hunger Ending Hunger Hunger Awareness

Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

“Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. We can however give some, and millions of people do, governments do, but there is so much more to be done.”

“We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.”

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Author:Martin Sheen

“This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.”

Lying Chance Numbers Thirds Luck Odd Divinity Good Luck Third Time Nativity Odd Numbers

Author:William Shakespeare

“They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.”

Years Said Impossible Health Benefits Thirds Dollars Unions Billions Saved Reform Health Care They Said Taxpayers Rail Bankruptcy Pension Bipartisan Public Sector Health Benefits

Author:Chris Christie

“I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.”

Giving Firsts Magic Losing Thirds Give Me Drank Drunkenness Madeleines

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

“It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other.”

“The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports. These orders upward all of them are gazing, And downward so prevail, that unto God They all attracted are and all attract.”

Firsts Lasts Order Three Next Sports Virtue Divine Angel Thirds Wheels Hierarchy Dominion Gazing Angelic Archangel

Book:The divine comedy

Source: The divine comedy

“To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”

Cases Crazy Thirds Mad Leaving Philosopher Beast

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.”

Writing Firsts Three Reading Literature Subjects Travel Elements Reflection Thirds Combination Exploration Funny Travel Tourists Tourism Reading Literature

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”

“The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.”

People Knows World Want Suffering Humanity Term Thirds Charity Third World

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.”

Ifs Men Giving Firsts Three Bits Streets Arms Cold First Time Thirds Police Charity Corners Shocked Another Man Pennies Street Corners Stumps Third Time

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.”

Two Family Identity Thirds Unity Pet Household Farming Thumbs Family Love Toddler Happy Family Funny Family Lovely Family

Author:Robert Breault

“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.”

People Ifs Believe Soul Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Literature Understanding Religious Eternal Thirds Claims

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe.”

Looks Ideas Real Humor Bigs Song Thirds Credit Unexpected Honey Being Real Smarter Hoaxes

Author:Elvis Presley

“To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face”

Giving Persons Faces Desire Audience Ready Kings Needed Glory Thirds Sacraments Altars Face To Face Converses Third Person

Author:Teresa of Avila

“When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.”

Opportunity Ambition Highest Thirds Philosophical Honorable My Ambition Life Ambition

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.”

Firsts Enemy My Friends Thirds Glasses Alcohol Alcoholism Good Humor

Author:William Temple

“The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.”

Firsts Next Talking Communication Conversation Thirds Wit Ingredients Sense Of Humor Fourth Good Sense Good Humor

Book:The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679

Source: The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. ...: Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs. The third part. From the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs ... from ... 1672, to 1679

“We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.”

World Firsts Two School Three Parent Education Teach Masters Thirds

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.”

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Author:Paul Hawken

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.”

“"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.”

“He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.”

Humans Heart America Thirds Humanitarian Documents Tribute Roger

Author:Damon Runyon

“Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we'd call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that's exactly what thieves do - redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders' vision, it's a sin in the eyes of God.”

Giving Persons Doe Two Government Eye Three Sin Liberty Vision Economic Economics Thirds Property Income Budgets Betray Thieves Founders Theft Income Redistribution

Author:Walter E. Williams

“The third level of wanting is "I commit to being rich." The definition of the word commit is to "devote oneself unreservedly." This means holding absolutely nothing back; giving 100 percent of everything you've got to achieving wealth. It means being willing to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes. This is the warrior's way. No excuses, no ifs, no butts, no maybes-and failure isn't an option. The warrior's way is simple: "I will be rich or I will die trying."”

“With all that IMF money, the Thailand's and Mexico's are spared the consequences of their fiscal incompetence, and Wall Street's heavy hitters are spared the consequences of their stupid investments. The global economy is a rigged game, rigged so Third World politicians, rich investors and global corporations win - and U.S. taxpayers lose.”

“Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it.”

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Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.”

“A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's external crust, and finally of the origin and development of living organisms. These considerations naturally divide the physics of the earth into three essential parts, the first being a theory of the atmosphere, or Meteorology, the second, a theory of the earth's external crust, or Hydrogeology, and the third, a theory of living organisms, or Biology.”

“[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity" as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you do things in that way you get unexpected results. Then you do something else and you get unexpected results in another line, and you do that on a third line and then all of a sudden you see that one of these lines has something to do with the other. Then you make a discovery that you never could have made by going on a direct road.”

Way Giving May Art Made Science Lines Freedom Results Cases Style Directors Research Discovery Direct Thirds Unexpected Serendipity Investigators Whitney

Author:Irving Langmuir

“The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.”

World Real Century This World Thirds Mark Intelligent Minorities 21st Century January Millennium

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.”

Ifs Want Firsts Science Three Study Thirds Mathematics Physicist Three Things

Author:Arnold Sommerfeld

“When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'”

Years Mind Would Be Able School Teacher Heard One Day My Friends Thirds Convinced Grades Rays Georgia Third Grade Charles I

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.”

Knows Different Shows Tvs Proud Thirds Idols Tv Shows Auditions

Author:Kelly Clarkson

“Use the head, use the heart, and if you can use both a tremendous revolution will happen. If you can use both you will become aware that you are the third force - neither; you are neither head nor heart; because if you can move so easily from one to another you cannot be either; you must be separate from both - then the witnessing arises; then the identification is broken. And that witnessing is what meditation is all about.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.”

“[When accepting the American Film Institute Life Achievement award] I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, and encouragement, and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat (Patricia Hitchcock), and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville.”

“A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. For what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?”

Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson

“One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.”

Want Looks Has Beens Book Reading Reader Thirds Grades Sunday Rainy Third Grade Rainy Season Rainy Sunday

Author:Beverly Cleary

“If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.”