Quotes with second-highest

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  • Oscar Wilde Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry James Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Abraham Lincoln To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Albert Einstein To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Henri Cartier-Bresson To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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  • Samuel Johnson To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Ben Hecht Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Billy Bennett Twas the fifteenth anniversary of her twenty-second year,
    So he smiled at her as sweetly as a hog
    And asked what present she would like. And jestingly she said:
    Your green tie for my little yellow dog.
    The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog line 13
    Billy Bennett
    British comedian
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Marcia Wieder Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • John Henry Newman Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Benito Mussolini War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Dave Barry We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Eduardo Galeano We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
    Eduardo Galeano
    Uruguayan journalist and writer (1940 - 2015)
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  • Thomas Wolfe We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Carl Paladino We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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