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Letter "T" » Third World
«Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something.»
Author: Dean Rusk
(Statesman)
| About:
Astronomy
| Keywords:
astronomer, astronomers, implication, implications, one-third, Other Two, The Other Two, thirds, Third World, two-thirds
«There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
evenings, Long Winter, second thought, second world, The Long, The Third, Third World, winter
«Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all... it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World»
Author: Arundhati Roy
(Author)
| Keywords:
alternative, contract, inefficient, mutually, preferably, presented, profitable, ruling, Third World
«The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
| Keywords:
January, millennia, millennium, minority, The 21st Century, The Millennium, The Third, Third World
«Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
Globalization,
Internet
| Keywords:
affect, cell, cell phones, Computers, defined, globalization, People Like Us, phones, thirds, Third World, two-thirds
«The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries»
«More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.»
«In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.»
«Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Body of, body of water, gill, occupying, ocean, thirds, Third World, two-thirds
«There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
able, accomplish, cease, deny, dissolution, dying, fifth, fifths, First Ones, First to, First world, five, fourth, growing, in this, In this World, non, second, second world, sick, sicker, sickest, third, Third Way, Third World
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