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• The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

  Leona Lewis

  Country, London, Crime

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

  Dan Lipinski

  Zero, Car, Independence

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• A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

  Franz Liszt

  Theatre, Firsts, Recognition

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• We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Past, Numbers, Cnn

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

  Mike Love

  Buddhist, Sleep, Meditation

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• I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

  John Major

  Regret, Entering, Mechanism

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• The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

  Imelda Marcos

  Real, People, Philippines

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

  Abraham Maslow

  Food, Creativity, Creative

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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• It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

  Ernst Mayr

  Phenomenon, Seems, Vertical

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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• Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.

  Angela Merkel

  Order, Needs, Debt

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

  Angela Merkel

  Sports, Europe, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Integrity, Thinking

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• I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Break, Holes, Found

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• I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

  Edvard Munch

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

  Benito Mussolini

  Fate, Birth Rate, Empires

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• Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Mom, Children, Emotional

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• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Jobs, Character, Ebay

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• Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.

  Grover Norquist

  Want, Damage, Small Business

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• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, America, Citizens

  "CNN's Piers Morgan Battles with Ted Nugent on Guns, Says Second Amendment Almost Killed Gabby Giffords". www.newsbusters.org. May 19, 2011.

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• I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Simple, New Job

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, New Normal, People

  "CBS 'Early Show' Touted Softest Part of Obama '60 Minutes' Interview, Ignored Tough Questions". Interview with Steve Kroft, www.mrc.org. November 7, 2010.

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• When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.

  Susan Orlean

  Distance, Rain, Kids

  "Hello, It’s Me" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2010.

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• Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.

  Suze Orman

  Shopping, Mortgage, Percentages

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• Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation.

  Suze Orman

  Mean, Rough Patches, Benefits

  "Suze Orman: Are you making these financial mistakes". Article by Suze Orman, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2010.

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• Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as high as you think.

  Suze Orman

  Thinking, Years, May

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