Quotes with second-order

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  • John Foster Dulles Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Gerard De Nerval Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Bill Huizenga Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.
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  • Charles Horton Cooley Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Lord George Byron Our thoughts take the wildest flight: Even at the moment when they should arrange themselves in thoughtful order.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Balthus Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Henry James People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • James Baldwin Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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  • B. Kevin Turner Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • George Eliot Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • C. Everett Koop Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Jean Anouilh Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • George Orwell Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bill Shuster President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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