Thirds Quotes - Page 29

• There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Brain, Three, Kind

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.73, Race Point Publishing

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• When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Self, World, Firsts

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• I'm the third of five children.

  Rand Paul

  Children, Five

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• You have to do well on third downs.

  Joe Buck

  Wells

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• People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me - and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations - nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit ... asked for blintzes.

  Dick Gregory

  Race, Names, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Reality, Birth Control Pills

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• Don't you think that being a person of faith has become a third rail in American politics? If you want to run for president nowadays, you'd better get out there and say you're a very faith-based person.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Thinking, President

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• Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

  Richard Jeni

  Success, Two, Luck

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• You could place one product in a first-run telecast, a second product what that program is rerun, and a third product when the show goes into syndication, and another product when it goes on cable.

  David Brenner

  Running, Goes On, Reruns

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• I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.

  Shirley Williams

  Party, Believe, Not Interested

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• The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.

  John Malkovich

  Eye, Natural Gifts, Easy

  "New Again: John Malkovich". Interview with Becky Johnston, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I approach song writing three different ways. One way is where I write the initial melody and lyrics first and then take it in to the producer to collaborate. Another way is where the producer sends me his initial musical track ideas and then I write the lyrics and melody over his track. The third way is where we just jam out in the studio and see what we come up with.

  Manika

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them. A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody's property or take anybody's money. You found life a lot tougher.

  Barry White

  Children, Kids, Years

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I miss third grade because you could kill people in dodgeball. Remember the rules to dodgeball? If you're fat or have glasses, don't show up because you'll die.

  Jay Mohr

  Glasses, People, Missing

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• There's no excuse for domestic violence. It sounds like a challenge. I mean, does everything have to be so black-and-white in this kindergarten country of ours? What if you come home from a long day at work and your wife has drowned two of your kids - she's about to dunk the third one. Can you run over and pop her then? Unfortunately no, there's no excuse. You're going to have to let her drown that third one.

  Daniel Tosh

  Running, Country, Home

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• The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

  Christopher Titus

  Damn You, Tests, United States

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Paul ascended into the third heavens and he could understand the THREE PRINCIPLE ROUNDS of Jacobs ladder - the telestial, the terrestrial, and the celestial glories or kingdoms, when Paul saw and heard things which were not lawful to utter. I COULD EXPLAIN A HUNDREDFOLD MORE THAN I EVER HAVE of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision were I permitted and were the people ready to receive them.

  Sam Smith

  People, Heaven, Vision

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• That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Upset, Stories, Way

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• My friend and I were up to all sorts of shenanigans at school. But one time it ended up disrupting the whole class and we got in trouble. His parents told him he wasn't allowed to hang out with me any more. I had a friendship break-up in third grade. It was brutal.

  Arj Barker

  School, Class, Parent

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• The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who went mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Men, Europe, Mad

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• The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

  H. H. Asquith

  War, Office, Three

  In Alistair Horne 'Price of Glory' (1962) ch. 2

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• India has always maintained that there will be no third party in Indo-Pak talks. Hurriyat cannot be a party.

  Sushma Swaraj

  Party, India, Third Parties

  "Pakistan has violated the UFA agreement, says Sushma Swaraj". Press conference, www.dnaindia.com. August 22, 2015.

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• The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace - the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.

  Charles Brent

  Firsts, Fellowship With God, Accepting

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• ... the consensus of the scientific community has shifted from skepticism to near-unanimous acceptance of the evidence of an artificial greenhouse effect. Second, while artificial climate change may have some beneficial effects, the odds are we're not going to like it. Third, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases may turn out to be much more practical and affordable than currently assumed.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Acceptance, Odds, Community

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• Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be the greatest threat to our forests.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Environmental, Fuel, World

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