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.
    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.
    (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.
    (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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