Quotes with second-highest

Quotes 381 till 400 of 495.

  • Herbert Spencer The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature - a type nowhere at present existing.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Brendan Myers The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Donald Trump The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • 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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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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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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  • Walter Lippmann The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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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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  • Billie Joe Armstrong The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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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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  • Billy Graham The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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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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  • 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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  • Carl Gustav Jung The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.
    The Practice of Psychotherapy (1953) p. 364
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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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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  • Barbara Mikulski The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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