Quotes with second-best

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  • John Wooden No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Bobbi Kristina Brown No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.
    Bobbi Kristina Brown
    American reality television personality, media personality, and singer (1993 - 2015)
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  • Barry Ritholtz No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Tacitus Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Bobby Unser Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.
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  • C. Wright Mills Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951) Section One: The Competitive Way of Life.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • C.E. Montague Nothing is language is immutably fixed: the best writers are constantly changing it.
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  • Bud Abbott Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
    To which Costello replies "Thats what I want to find out." From: Naughty Nineties (1945)
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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  • John Ruskin Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Cook Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
    Joseph Cook
    6th prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914 (1860 - 1947)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best
    Those which have been used.
    The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
    The knives and forks whose wooden handles
    Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
    Seemed to me the noblest.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Edwin P. Whipple Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
    Edwin P. Whipple
    American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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  • John Selden Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Francis Bacon Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ian Fleming Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
    Ian Fleming
    British author and journalist (1908 - 1964)
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  • Aldous Huxley On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brad Meltzer On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Butch Trucks Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could get lengthy.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • John F. Kennedy Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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