Quotes with fourth-rate

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  • Abraham H. Maslow A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Cyril Connolly A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • William Faulkner All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Douglas Adams You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Judy Garland Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Arnold Bennett A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Judy Garland Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
    Business Etiquette for the Nineties (1992) p. 8
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Albert Einstein An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Benazir Bhutto As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Anthony Kennedy Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
    Anthony Kennedy
    American lawyer and jurist (1936 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Benjamin Graham Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII,Ultimate Uses of the Stored Unit
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Alan Watts But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • James A. Michener Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Basil Rathbone Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
    Basil Rathbone
    English actor (1892 - 1967)
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  • Frederick Saunders Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.
    Frederick Saunders
    British-American librarian, editor and writer (1807 - 1902)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Auberon Herbert Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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