Quotes with second-order

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  • Samuel Johnson By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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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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  • Steve Martin Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
    Steve Martin
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician (1945 - )
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  • George Santayana Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • José Saramago Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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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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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - which is the mostest? which is the leastest? They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Will Durant Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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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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  • John Berger Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Henry Miller Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Norman Podhoretz Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
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  • Camille Paglia Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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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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  • Bill Hybels Developing prayer fitness is similar to developing physical fitness: we must follow a pattern in order to stay balanced.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Mother Teresa Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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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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