Thirds Quotes - Page 38

• His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

  Lee Trevino

  Memories, Golf, Nerves

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• The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Firsts

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• The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.

  N. T. Wright

  Two, Challenges, Church

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• It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of China. But Taiwan is also a regional issue for three reasons. First, the overthrow or even the neutering of democracy in Taiwan, which is what Beijing effectively demands, would be a major setback for democracy in the region as a whole. Second, if the Chinese were able to get their way by force in Taiwan, they would undoubtedly be tempted to do the same in other disputes. And third, there is no lack of such disputes to provoke a quarrel.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Issues, Chinese, Democracy

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• What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Strong Women, Freedom, Europe

  Margaret Thatcher (2017). “On Europe”, p.1941, HarperCollins UK

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• The Third World is very much like the First World - just poorer: what works for the West will work for the rest as well.

  Margaret Thatcher

  West, Firsts, World

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• To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Years, Leader

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• The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your toolbox with the right instruments. The second is that while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one

  Stephen King

  Hard Work, Writing, Dedication

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• Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you any more.

  Arnold Sommerfeld

  Thinking, Two, Firsts

  "Physical Chemistry in Depth". Textbook by Johannes Karl Fink, p. 1, 1992.

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• Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Osteoporosis, Threat, Physiology

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• I'm a teammate guy, so whatever I can do to help my team to win like I have the past two years, that's what I want to do. If it takes for me to play first base, third base, right field, I just want to win the game.

  Albert Pujols

  Team, Winning, Past

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• The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

  Gale Sayers

  Firsts, Lord, My Friends

  Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”

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• You know, it was once said of the first George Bush that he was born on third base and thought he'd hit a triple. Well, with the 22 million new jobs and the budget surplus Bill Clinton left behind, George W. Bush came into office on third base, and then he stole second.

  Ted Strickland

  Jobs, Office, New Job

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• Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

  Christa Wolf

  Dying, Way, Killing

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• I think the difference the Jimmy Carter presidency and the Obama regime is navet and maliciousness. I think this is purposeful maliciousness. That's why what you're seeing now in this administration. I don't think they care for this country. And I think they're trying to make it into some kind of third-world socialistic cesspool. I think they are willing to get in bed with any dictator or despotic ruler that they see.

  Allen West

  Country, Thinking, Differences

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• There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Long, Possibility, Ability

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• Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Successful, Albums, Firsts

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• More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

  John Shadegg

  Home, United States, Citizens

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• There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

  Italo Svevo

  Inspirational, Names, Three

  Italo Svevo (1969). “Essays on Italo Svevo”

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• I don't think DIY is something that necessarily comes to mind when people hear Third Eye Blind, but that is completely how we've been from the beginning.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Israel, World, Force

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• I think if you're going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit, that he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Axes, Iran

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• After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

  Cat Stevens

  Brother, Dark, People

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• How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

  Paul Simon

  Two, Voice, Harmony

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• Dogs in America get more affection than women in most Third World countries.

  Cesar Millan

  Country, Dog, America

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