"I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever."

-- Buchi Emecheta

#World Quotes #Thirds Quotes

“Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.”
“After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.”

Source : Hatfill's Statement, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.
“Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.”

Source : Frances Wright (1831). “Course of Popular Lectures,”, p.132
“[S]he believed that the Buddhists were rightâ€“that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)”
“Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.”
“Memory is your image of perfection.”
“Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.”
“So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.”

Source : Erving Goffman (1981). “Forms of Talk”, p.1, University of Pennsylvania Press

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