Thirds Quotes - Page 14

• If we could measure the damage to corporations from gossip, it might be more than the GNP of the Third World!

  Harvey Mackay

  Gossip, World, Might

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• Transcendence implies the surpassing of two things, and the consequent attainment of a third thing. But there are no 'things' in reality, of any kind whatever: there is only the thing-in-itself, its suchness, which is Reality, revealed when the illusory dualism of inexistent qualities is dissolved.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Reality, Two, Quality

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• Honestly, because it's my third, I feel like I've been pregnant for like six years, seriously.

  Maya Rudolph

  Years, Six, Honestly

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• We never really learn from the first mistake or the second or third. It only hit us when we're given the last chance.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Mistake, Lasts, Firsts

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• And people is the most important part of my job. I spend one third of my time on people.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Jobs, People, Important

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• The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash.

  Jerry Pournelle

  War, Army, Way

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• Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, Drug, Income

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• When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, Jobs, Cutting

  FaceBook post by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Feb 10, 2016

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• I got booted out third, but to me [Last Comic Standing] was a lot like Rambo II...I don't really remember much...there was rats, people bombing, screaming, yelling, and a middle aged guy with a shaved chest got beat by somebody from the Viet Cong.

  Rob Cantrell

  Yelling, People, Guy

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• My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

  Mark Helprin

  Children, Father, School

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• I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second is economy. The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy comes generosity; From humility comes leadership.

  Laozi

  Humility, Generosity, Treasure

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, Like a Husbandman?

  Origen

  Morning, Stars, Men

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• All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.

  James Hetfield

  Lying, Eye, Home

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• The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right to interfere. The practical part consists in our doing good to each other. But since religion has been made into a trade, the practical part has been made to consist of ceremonies performed by men called priests ... By devices of this kind true religion has been banished, and such means have been found out to extract money, even from the pockets of the poor, instead of contributing to their relief.

  Thomas Paine

  Party, Mean, Men

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.204

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• My idea of a 'super bowl' is when the catcher is standing in front of the plate with the ball, waiting for me as I round third...and I make him drop it. That's a quality Super Bowl.

  Kirk Gibson

  Ideas, Waiting, Quality

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• Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.

  Max De Pree

  Mean, Significant Things, Third Grade

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• Growing up, I didn't know about families who were missing a father, because there weren't any in our neighborhood. Today over a third of American children are born into single-parent homes. Is this all men's doing?

  Timothy J. Russert

  Children, Growing Up, Father

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• While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.

  Roger Ebert

  Secret, Despair, Plot

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, p.274, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Firsts, Christianity

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• The biggest roadblock to middle-class economic advancement is that governments confiscate more than a third of all family income. Each year the average American taxpayer works 127 days - from January 1 until May 7 - just to pay taxes.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Government, Average, Years

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• Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple.

  Jon Rappoport

  Simple, America, Allies

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• Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local clinics before they can see a specialist. The clinics have security guards to keep patients from getting unruly as they wait hours to see a doctor. The guards also prevent new patients from entering the clinic when the waiting room is considered full. Uppsala, a city with 200,000 people, has only one specialist in mammography. Sweden's National Cancer Foundation reports that in a few years most Swedish women will not have access to mammography.

  Walter E. Williams

  Cancer, Doctors, Waiting Rooms

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.273, Hoover Institution Press

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• President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.

  Dick Morris

  War, Average, President

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• In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Government, Class

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• One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the Federal Housing and the Veterans Administration. Wall Street buyers of repackaged loans didn't mind buying risky paper because they assumed that they would be guaranteed by the federal government: read bailout from the taxpayers. Today's housing mess can be laid directly at the feet of Congress and the White House.

  Walter E. Williams

  Wall, White, Feet

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.47, Hoover Institution Press

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