Quotes with next-best

Quotes 1281 till 1300 of 1663.

  • James Branch Cabell The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
    James Branch Cabell
    American author (1879 - 1958)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Cass Sunstein The original 'Star Trek' series is the classic one. Its successor, 'The Next Generation,' is less lovable, but at its best, it's smarter.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Baba Kalyani The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Will Rogers The person 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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  • Henry Ward Beecher The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Billy Collins The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Peter Ustinov The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Bob Rae The premise of neo-conservatives is that markets left to their own devices will produce the best possible result, and that political interference is not required. This defies the human reality that people are not commodities, and simply refuse to behave as if they were.
    Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Pro
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Vince Lombardi The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • John Ruskin The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Michelangelo The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • John Adams The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Henry Fielding The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Aldous Huxley The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Mark Twain The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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