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• England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Country, Thinking, Land

  "Semi-detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Relations". Book by Martin Ceadel, p. 271, 2000.

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• It follows that acceleration in the rate of change will result in an increasing need for reorganization. Reorganization is usually feared, because it means disturbance of the status quo, a potential threat to peoples vested interests in their jobs, and an upset to established ways of doing things. For these reasons, needed reorganization is often deferred. With a resulting loss in effectiveness and increase in costs.

  Marvin Bower

  Change, Jobs, Mean

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• First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

  Clive James

  Art, Interesting, Firsts

  Clive James (2015). “From the Land of Shadows”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• Most of the common infections - colds, flu, diarrhea - you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces.

  Charles P. Gerba

  Thinking, Air, People

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• Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.

  Li Ka-shing

  Impact, Numbers, Sound

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• There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  Science, Guy, Democracy

  "The Politics of Pure Science". Book by Daniel S. Greenberg, p. 43, 1967.

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• You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Made, Ill, Materials

  Natalia Ginzburg (1989). “Family Sayings”, p.98, Arcade Publishing

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• By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in numbers to survive. There'll be a few over-visited parks, the coral reefs will be beaten up, grasslands overgrazed. Vast areas of the tropics that have lost their forests will have the same damn weeds, bushes and scrawny eucalyptus trees so that you don't know if you're in Africa or the Americas.

  Stuart L. Pimm

  Weed, Numbers, Tree

  "Mass Extinction Not Inevitable". The Wired Interview, www.wired.com. March 20, 2004.

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• Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point. Eventually their growth rate can diminish as results revert towards normal. Maybe not in all cases, but often enough to make a long-term bet. Bottom line: I wouldn't want to get caught in a rush for the exit, much less get left behind. Only when big growth stocks fall into the dumper from time to time am I inclined to pick them up - and even then, only in moderation.

  John Neff

  Fall, Rising Prices, Names

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• As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars a week for 10 weeks, and created one hundred million dollars in new [checkbook] currency, which alleviated the critical famine of money and credit, and the factories started hiring people again.

  Eustace Mullins

  Government, Office, People

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• Thus a long term corporate bond could actually be sold to three separate persons. One would supply the money for the bond; one would bear the interest rate risk, and one would bear the risk of default. The last two would not have to put up any capital for the bond, though they might have to post some sort of collateral.

  Fischer Black

  Two, Long, Risk

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• There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

  Christopher Bram

  Art, No Point, Ifs

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• Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Hearing Things, Roots, People

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• First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

  Andre Weil

  People, Firsts, Mathematician

  "Comic Sections: Book of Mathematical Jokes, Humour, Wit and Wisdom". Book by Des MacHale, 1993.

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• If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.

  Randolph M. Nesse

  Cancer, Males, Female

  "Help Save Men and Help Cure Breast Cancer" by Jed Diamond, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Time doesn't flow at the same rate for everyone. You can change time. You can slow it down, you can speed it up.

  Jim Al-Khalili

  Flow, Speed

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• There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

  Janet Tashjian

  Wrecks, Poverty, Conflict

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• Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.

  G. E. M. Anscombe

  Sex, Attitude, Trying

  G.E.M. Anscombe (2012). “Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe”, p.208, Andrews UK Limited

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• What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.

  Ludwig von Mises

  United States, Quota, Reason Why

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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• The White House says that the unemployment rate is good news because it means more people are looking for jobs. More good news like that, and everyone at the White House will be looking for jobs.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Mean, White

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• When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

  Martin Luther

  People, Devil, Doe

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

  Dan Pallotta

  Dream, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2013.

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• Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.

  Tim Harford

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

  Mary Landrieu

  Country, Issues, Attention

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• We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Country, Home, Land

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