Quotes with second-highest

Quotes 121 till 140 of 495.

  • Simone Weil Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Carl Schurz From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • William James Mayo Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
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  • Bobby Scott Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • A. C. Swinburne Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Blaise Pascal Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bill Richardson Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Ali Smith Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Seneca Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Cameron Mackintosh Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
    Cameron Mackintosh
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar He climbs highest who helps another up.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Thomas à Kempis He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Thomas Jefferson He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Billy Sunday Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Bradley Chicho Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • George Carlin Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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