Quotes with next-best

Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 1663.

  • Carl Sagan The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • C. Wright Mills The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • William Wordsworth The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Junius The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Charles M. Schwab The man who has done his best has done everything.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • B. C. Forbes The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Will Rogers The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Pliny the Elder The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Charles Kingsley The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Buddy DeSylva The moon belongs to everyone;
    The best things in life are free.
    The stars belong to everyone;
    They gleam there for you and me.
    Song: The Best Things in Life are Free
    Buddy DeSylva
    American songwriter and film producer (1895 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Spock The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
    Benjamin Spock
    American doctor (1903 - 1998)
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  • Will Rogers The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Thomas Sowell The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
    Thomas Sowell
    American economist, social theorist and political philosopher (1930 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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