"Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best."

-- Eric Liddell

#Missing Quotes #Second Best Quotes

“Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race- small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.”
“Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.”
“As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.”
“The best practice is inspired by theory.”
“I would never do anything just for spite.”
“I rely on a lot of green drinks to get my vegetables.”
“I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.”

Source : Todd Boyd (2004). “The New H. N. I. C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop”, p.9, NYU Press
“The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they get something that works at all they plunge ahead with it and ignore its weak spots... scientists are just as bad as the rest of the public in following fads and being influenced by mass enthusiasm.”

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