Quotes with tenth-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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bob Brown Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Andre Weil First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
    Andre Weil
    French mathematician
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  • Bernie Sanders Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Katherine Anne Porter I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Groucho Marx I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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