Quotes with second-best

Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 1600.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Harper We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bob Cousy We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.
    Bob Cousy
    American basketball player (1928 - )
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  • Dora Russell We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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  • Bob Filner We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Mark Twain We have the best government that money can buy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John F. Kennedy We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Steve Jobs We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • John F. Kennedy We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Boxer We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist We know that as a Christian athlete, people are watching, and so we want to be the best example we can be and show that we are different - that Christ has changed our lives.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Barbara Deming We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • William Winwood Reade We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • David Bailey We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
    David Bailey
    English fashion and portrait (1938 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Edward Rowland Sill We must do the best we can with what we have.
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  • Alexander Hamilton We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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