Quotes with second-order

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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Aristotle First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Les Brown Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Confucius By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Habit is second nature.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Ayn Rand I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Bill Watterson A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Helen Rowland A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • C. P. Snow A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
    The Two Cultures (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Cyril Connolly A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Adam Clayton Powell A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
    Keep the Faith, Baby!
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • Edward de Bono Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
    Edward de Bono
    Maltese physician, psychologist, philosopher, author and inventor (1933 - )
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  • Carl Levin Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Doug Horton First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Iris Murdoch I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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