"Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already……" — Maurice Ravel

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• A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin… — Arnold Bennett
• The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training… — William James
• It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely… — Martin Rees
• A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. — Mignon McLaughlin
• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a… — Malcolm Muggeridge
• Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders,… — Laozi
• My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and… — Lauren Bacall
• Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound… — Unknown Author
• It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate… — Mark Van Doren
• The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement. — Andrew Sarris
• I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all… — Wes Anderson
• Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as… — Stephen Burt

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