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When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.

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Daniel Levitin
American - Scientist
Born: December 27, 1957

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

Peter Mandelson

Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term--the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

Timothy Leary

We can't have a third Obama term, which is what electing Hillary Clinton would do.

John Barrasso

If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.

Robert Dallek

You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is manufacturing and one-third of it is buildings. That means architects are responsible for one-third of energy by their designs. So not only is it dire, it's also something that we can do.

Carol Ross Barney

A Clinton presidency is an Obama third term. And it's very difficult for them to get away from it.

Paul Ryan

At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

Bill de Blasio

[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between false conflicts and the true conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious fundamentalism is a false one, since it is based on the exclusion of the third term which is its truth: the Leftist emancipatory position.

Slavoj Žižek

The most important thing that a company can do in the midst of this economic turmoil is to not lose sight of the long-term perspective. Don't confuse the short-term crises with the long-term trends. Amidst all of these short-term change are some fundamental structural transformations happening in the economy, and the best way to stay in business is to not allow the short-term distractions to cause you to ignore what is happening in the long term.

Paul Saffo

I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'

Wole Soyinka

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

James Toback

He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.

Damon Runyon

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

Woody Guthrie

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

Craig Venter

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.

Sophie Kinsella

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