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• A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

  Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

  Science, Firsts, Scientist

  "And I Quote, Revised Edition: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker". Book by Andrew Frothingham, Ashton Applewhite, and Tripp Evans, p.469, 1992.

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• The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

  John P. Kotter

  Change, Competition, Next

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• I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Ignorance, Squares

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

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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.

  Success, Encouraging, Simple

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• Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Freedom, Cutting, Government

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• 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 monk's life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do.

  Thomas Merton

  Happiness, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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 therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.

  Aristotle

  True Friend, Taken, Character

  Aristotle, William David Ross (1955). “Works”

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• I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

  Richard Strauss

  Inspiring, Music, Second Chance

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• The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse
  people would marry for good.

  Ruby Dee

  Marriage, Divorce, People

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• If we cannot agree, let us at any rate agree to differ, but let us part as friends.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Peace, Ubuntu, Agree

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• 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 a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

  Ida Tarbell

  Leadership, Peace, Truth

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• Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence.
  Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.

  Robert Graves

  Humorous, Poetry, Fancy

  "The Crane Bag". Book by Robert Graves. "The Case for Xanthippe", 1969.

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• Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, People, Political

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• 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 means for all our ends. And whoever has sole control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served, which values are to be rates higher and which lower, in short, what men should believe and strive for.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Mean, Men

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 7 : Economic Control and Totalitarianism, 1940 - 1943.

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• 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 highest rates of religious beliefs.

  Richard Dawkins

  Country, Religious, Economic Inequality

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• 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 to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Prayer, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• 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 statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

  Winston Churchill

  Baby, Learning, Science

  As cited in "The Life of Politics" by Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204., 1968.

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• 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 can make on them.

  Stendhal

  Beauty, Men, Passionate Love

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• 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 make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Imagination, Earning

  "A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 26, 2012.

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• 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 along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Competition, Healthy, Acting

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• 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 of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Learning, Clothes

  Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.64, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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 fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.

  Herbert Muschamp

  Memories, Cities, History

  "The Secret History of 2 Columbus Circle" by Herbert Muschamp, www.nytimes.com. January 8, 2006.

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• 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 life, even with regard to the great problem of the birth rate, must find here in your Assembly its highest affirmation and its most rational defense. Your task is to ensure that there is enough bread on the tables of mankind, and not to encourage an artificial control of births, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

  Pope Paul VI

  Numbers, Order, Birth Rate

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• 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 to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Freedom, Political

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• 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 themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Mean, People

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