Quotes with second-rate

Quotes 201 till 220 of 360.

  • 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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  • Bill Ackman Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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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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  • Bruce Babbitt Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • William R. Alger Public opinion is a second conscience.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Bertrand Russell Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alfred Nobel Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Beau Bridges Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • David Ogilvy Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Brent Scowcroft So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Sometimes when you get to the press conferences, you hear you're going to play this person in the semifinals, and in the quarters, you're going to play her. And I'm like, 'Hold on a second.' First of all, you have to make it there. Second, your opponent needs to make it there. It looks easier on paper than it is in real life.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Barbara Stanwyck Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.
    Barbara Stanwyck
    American actress, model and dancer (1907 - 1990)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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