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«Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law»
Author: Auberon Waugh | About: Journalism | Keywords: go into, journalism, nowadays, rubbish, second best, Second law, second law of, shits, the shits
«It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.»
Author: David Joseph Schwartz | Keywords: beyond, doers, harbor, harbored, harbors, invariably, leader, observe, respect, second, second best, study, surpass, surpassed, surpassing, The Second, worship, worshipping
«There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best»
Author: Doris Lessing (Novelist, Writer) | About: Sin | Keywords: persuade, second best, The Second
«Surgery is always second best. If you can do something else, it's better.»
Author: Dr. John Kirklin | Keywords: second best, something else, surgery
«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.»
Author: Bertrand Russell (Logician, Philosopher) | About: Life | Keywords: barrier, Best A, creative activity, real life, second best
«We must as second best...take the least of the evils.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | Keywords: evils, second, second best
«We always end up doing the thing we are second best at.»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | Keywords: second best
«The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.»
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«Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day;The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: Ancient of Days, Best A, draw away, Eye of, second best, turn away
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