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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:
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«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:
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«There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best»
«Surgery is always second best. If you can do something else, it's better.»
«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:
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«We must as second best...take the least of the evils.»
«We always end up doing the thing we are second best at.»
«The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.»
Author: Proverb
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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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