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• On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Scales, Eleven, Ten

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• Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted. Even if one rates an unborn child less than a full-blown person, doesn't the unborn child rate slightly higher than vegetation?

  Ann Coulter

  Children, Tree, Upset

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.5, Crown Forum

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• I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying
  to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Father, Trying, Would Be

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

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• Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs.

  Mel Carnahan

  Jobs, Moving, People

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• We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air, and particularly happy that we had not been hit ourselves. Of course, I tell myself in quiet moments today: 'You've killed. In order to protect others and not be killed yourself.' But in the end: for what? The Third Reich trained 30,000 pilots. Ten thousand survived the war. One-third. This is the highest loss rate along with the U-boat sailors.

  Gunther Rall

  War, Loss, Thinking

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• Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies - leads to monstrous absurdities. The only acceptable finality of human activity is the production of a subjectivity that is auto-enriching its relation to the world in a continuous fashion.

  Felix Guattari

  Fashion, Growth, World

  Félix Guattari (1995). “Chaosmosis: An Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm”, p.21, Indiana University Press

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• I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want the hugeness of experience-which includes philosophical discursiveness-to move at a rate of speed that kept it (because all within one unity of experience) emotional. Also, often, questions became the way the poems propelled themselves forward It brings the reader in as a listener to a confession[.] A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

  Jorie Graham

  Moving, Philosophical, Emotional

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• The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and the Russian -- all took place in societies where the rate of literacy was approaching 50 per cent. Literacy had a profound effect on the peasant mind and community. It promotes abstract thought and enables the peasant to master new skills and technologies, Which in turn helps him to accept the concept of progress that fuels change in the modern world.

  Orlando Figes

  Technology, Skills, Profound

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• Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of return, even an eminently reasonable one, investors should target risk.

  Seth Klarman

  Focus, Risk, Target

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• Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with your own imagination.

  Lorraine Moller

  Running, Heart, Air

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• Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.

  Christopher Castellani

  Character, Emotional, Skills

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• If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.

  Phil Mickelson

  Decision, Add, Unemployment

  "Phil Mickelson may quit golf due to rising taxes". www.sbnation.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerated the rate at which we attempt to do things. It’s more of a diminishment of anything that isn’t happening right now—and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Technology, Our Society

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• If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

  Paul Keating

  Government, Australia, Done

  Interview with John Laws, Radio 2GB, May 14, 1986.

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• A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, People, Political

  Remarks by the President to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 19, 2001.

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• It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

  Florence Kelley

  Struggle, Mean, Forever

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• There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

  Gerald Finzi

  Birthday, World, Rooms

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• Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to puff one up: in my case at any rate it makes me feel extremely small and inadequate. But even the nose of a very modest idol cannot remain entirely untickled by the sweet smell of incense.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sweet, Idols, Smell

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• The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Jobs, Opportunity, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Years, Progress

  "Scientists and writers pay tribute to Arthur C Clarke" by Sarah Knapton, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2008.

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• As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Civilization, Class

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

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• The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  Hans Eysenck

  Recovery, Psychotherapy, Inverse

  Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge

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• It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in his career an appalling patience, a willingness to wait and to do his best now in the expectation that next year he will do better.

  Mark Van Doren

  Artist, Thinking, Years

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• The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

  Andrew Sarris

  Achievement, Firsts, Artistic

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• Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

  John F. Kennedy

  Yield, Government, Years

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