Quotes with second-order

Quotes 521 till 540 of 765.

  • Johannes Kepler The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
    Johannes Kepler
    German astronomer, mathematician and physicist (1572 - 1630)
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  • C. S. Lewis The doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives Donne's question What if this present were the world's last night? is equally relevant.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Srully Blotnick The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.
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  • Ronald Laing The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Joan Didion The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Anacharsis The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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  • Oscar Wilde The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sir William Temple The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Maria Montessori The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Barry Commoner The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
    The Closing Circle
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Robert Heller The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
    Robert Heller
    British management journalist, management consultant and author (1932 - 2012)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bill Gates The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
    The Road Ahead
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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