Quotes with second-greatest

Quotes 681 till 700 of 851.

  • Beatrice Wood The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.
    Contarini Fleming (1832) III, ch 1
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • John Banville The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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  • Abe Fortas The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Enid Bagnold The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Adam Smith The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • A. A. Milne The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Herb Caen The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
    Herb Caen
    American journalist (1916 - 1997)
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  • Smiley Blanton The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
    Smiley Blanton
    American psychoanalyst (1882 - 1966)
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  • Byron Dorgan The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Colin Powell The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Charles Evans Hughes The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
    Charles Evans Hughes
    American statesman and Republican politician (1862 - 1948)
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  • Walt Whitman The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery The US has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself.
    In the House of Lords on American policy in Vietnam, 1962.
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Bill Viola The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Babe Ruth The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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