Quotes with second-greatest

Quotes 841 till 851 of 851.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Camus Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Adele In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Cato the Elder Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Simone Weil The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Walt Whitman The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Alistair Cooke These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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