Quotes with second-highest

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  • Bono Can you imagine your second album — the difficult second album — it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
    About the album October (album) (1981) in a speech accepting induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (17 March 2005).
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bill Maris CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Thomas Jefferson Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Anna Jameson Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Samuel Johnson Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Ann Coulter Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Bob Dylan Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon - but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx - the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Barr Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
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  • Thomas Carlyle Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Anais Nin Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • David Hume Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Bai Ling English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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