Quotes with second-greatest

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  • Brad Feld Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • George Bernard Shaw Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Orville Wright Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
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  • Caitlin Fitzgerald T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
    Caitlin Fitzgerald
    American actress and filmmaker
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  • Freeman Dyson Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Dale Carnegie Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Helen Rowland Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Belle Livingstone That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Smiles The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Aldous Huxley The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Cal Hubbard The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
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  • Camille Paglia The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • C. L. R. James The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Agnes De Mille The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
    Agnes De Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • William Hazlitt The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Sir William Osler The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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