Quotes with second-best

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1600.

  • Ayn Rand The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Greg Anderson The Law of Win/Win says, ''Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Richard Saunders The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.
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  • Charles Evans Hughes The least practical solutions have the best acronyms.
    Charles Evans Hughes
    American statesman and Republican politician (1862 - 1948)
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  • Bob Barr The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bee Wilson The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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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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