Second Quotes
6250 quotes by 4203 authors
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Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first…
— Johannes Kepler
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Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.
— George Lois
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If you tell lies about a product, you will be found out - either by the Government, which will prosecute you, or by the consumer,…
— David Ogilvy
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
— Jonathan Haidt
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The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world…
— Italo Calvino
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Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the modern world, we…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no…
— John Hollander
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I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we…
— Frank Iero
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Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, and improvising good solutions to tough problems when…
— Chris Hadfield
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Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by…
— Gustav Fechner
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There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.
— Gustav Holst
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Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
— Chip Heath
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A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack.
— Andrew Card
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Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium.
— Bruce R. McConkie
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We have a sacred responsibility to fulfill the threefold mission of the Church—first, to teach the gospel to the world; second, to strengthen the membership…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic…
— H.G. Wells
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But if the U.S. were to leave and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united and sovereign country, that would definitely be a…
— Vladimir Putin
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Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction,
— Pope Francis
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I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife.
— Roger Stone
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