Quotes 241 till 260 of 372.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
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The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
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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) -
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) -
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
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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 -
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
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The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
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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.
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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 -
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
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