Quotes with second-greatest

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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Carter Burwell Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • William James Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Octave Mirbeau Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
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  • Napoleon Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Jack Nicklaus My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Woody Allen My brain: it's my second favorite organ.
    Source: Sleeper (1973)
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Jim Valvano My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
    Jim Valvano
    American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (1946 - 1993)
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  • Peter Carey My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
    Source:  (2004)
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Bjorn Borg My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Junot Diaz My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
    Source:  (2008)
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Katharine Hepburn My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • T. S. Eliot My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Angela Carter My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Novalis My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Rodney Dangerfield My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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