Quotes with second-greatest

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  • Ronald Reagan It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • A. Benson Cannon It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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  • Tennessee Williams It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Alan Cohen It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Hilaire Belloc It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • George Gurdjieff It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Sydney Smith It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • David J. Schwartz It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bill Paxton It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Jeanette Winterson It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
    Source: The Passion (2007) 19
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Ben Foster It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Maya Angelou It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It's the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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