Quotes with third-rate

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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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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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  • Bill de Blasio As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Bernard Levin Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Buchi Emecheta Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • H. G. Bohn Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
    H. G. Bohn
    British publisher
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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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  • Bob Crosby But just as I was ready to call it quits, I got the necessary money from a third party, who had been instructed by Bing to help me out, without letting me know where the help came from.
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  • Bode Miller But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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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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  • Will Rogers Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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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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  • Michael Ondaatje Death means you are in the third person.
    De Engelse patient (2011) 263
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Herbert Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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