Rate Quotes
1394 Rate quotes by 1034 unique authors
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The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.
— William Farr
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But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
— Gerald Finzi
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We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to…
— Rodrigo Rato
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If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend…
— Henry A. Wallace
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There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.
— Jim Sensenbrenner
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You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
— Maurice Ravel
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Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid…
— Tom Lehrer
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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates…
— David Ogilvy
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When the rate of change outside is more than what is inside, be sure that the end is near.
— Azim Premji
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You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to…
— Aldous Huxley
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The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.
— Peter Senge
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The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at…
— Winston Churchill
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When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government currencies and has…
— James Rickards
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The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug…
— Jared Diamond
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Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher.…
— Cliff Stearns
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In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this…
— Stephen Hawking
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My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were…
— Paul Nurse
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Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable…
— George Bernard Shaw
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate…
— Simon Heffer
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England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should…
— Stanley Baldwin
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It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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