Second Quotes

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To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told… — Thomas Browne
There's a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics...Man has reached the point… — D. James Baker
An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second. — Thomas Jefferson
All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductible logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive… — Morris Raphael Cohen
In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could… — John Kenneth Galbraith
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ,… — Immanuel Wallerstein
One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio, and… — Immanuel Wallerstein
If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by… — Lois Duncan
The people will not understand the importance of the Second Amendment until it is too late. — Thomas Jefferson
Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second. — Aron Bielski
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse. — Jeff Cooper
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun… — Alex Kozinski
We did a good job and I'm just glad I have it for a second time. — Petra Kvitova
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. — May Sarton
Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved… — Bruce Lee
The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child. — Pablo Picasso
There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this… — Wendell Berry

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