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Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. — Thomas Watson, Jr.
Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'. — Bruce Bartlett
Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a… — Thomas Merton
Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures… — Aristotle
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss
During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed… — Albert Einstein
If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all… — Ida Tarbell
Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president. — Richard M. Nixon
Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the… — Richard Dawkins
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for… — Winston Churchill
A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work. — Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women… — Stendhal
Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to… — Warren Buffett
Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they… — Michael Shurtleff
Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get… — Michael Shurtleff
My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack… — Marilyn Monroe
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are… — Herbert Muschamp
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for… — Pope Paul VI
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how… — Seneca the Younger
Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep… — George Bernard Shaw
Always be a first-rate version of yourself. — Audrey Hepburn
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued. — Jean de la Bruyere
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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