Quotes with second-highest

Quotes 321 till 340 of 495.

  • Anacharsis The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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  • Oscar Wilde The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sir William Temple The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Barry Commoner The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
    Source: The Closing Circle
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Robert Heller The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
    Robert Heller
    British management journalist, management consultant and author (1932 - 2012)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bill Gates The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
    Source: The Road Ahead
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Nathaniel Branden The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Abraham Cowley The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Sophocles The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
    Source: Motivation and Personality (1954)
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Kahlil Gibran The great man has two hearts - one bleeds, the second one endures.
    Source: Sand and Foam (1926)
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Oscar Wilde The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
    Source: The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The highest compact we can make with our fellow is: 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Wayne Gretzky The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
    Wayne Gretzky
    Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1961 - )
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