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The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were… — Kurt Vonnegut
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries… — Sidney Poitier
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He… — Paul Simon
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt,… — Julia Kristeva
Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose… — Kiran Desai
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from… — Rick Moody
The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And… — Cathie Linz
Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that… — Michael Robotham
When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While… — Yukio Mishima
all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third… — Kurt Vonnegut
Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for… — Chelsea Handler
I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must… — G I Gurdjieff
No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes… — Melina Marchetta
The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire… — Christopher Hitchens
I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held… — Joe Hill
Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men… — Audre Lorde
I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges… — Alex Tabarrok
To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an… — Eva Green
I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool. — Joan Rivers
What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way. — Ferdinand Marcos
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. — Chuck Palahniuk
Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting… — Noreena Hertz
My mom set up relief programs in third world countries. We would do things like go to Bogota with her instead of summer camp. — Unknown Author
When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety… — Malcolm Gladwell
World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their… — Donella Meadows

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