Quotes with second-best

Quotes 221 till 240 of 1600.

  • Carl Sagan By far the best way I know to engage the religious sensibility, the sense of awe, is to look up on a clear night.
    The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Johnson By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ben Johnson Calumnies are answered best with silence.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Bono Can you imagine your second album — the difficult second album — it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
    About the album October (album) (1981) in a speech accepting induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (17 March 2005).
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • John Maynard Keynes Capitalism is the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man -his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bill Shuster Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bill Maris CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Francis Bacon Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bobby Flay Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Joseph Addison Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bob Filner Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Anna Jameson Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Bob Newhart Chuck Lorre and I had been talking about doing one of his shows for a while. I said I'd like to do 'The Big Bang Theory,' because I think it's the best written, most intelligent show on television.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ann Coulter Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Michael Harrington Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
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