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  • Rank is a great beautifier. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Rank and expertise do not necessarily coincide. -- Karl E. Weick
  • Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. -- Giovanni Ruffini
  • Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
  • Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. -- Peter Drucker
  • Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military. -- Dick Mountjoy
  • Many governments have faced the proposal of One Rank One Pension but no solution has been found yet. -- Narendra Modi
  • Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. -- Molly Ivins
  • We trust in plumed procession For such the angels go Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow. -- Emily Dickinson
  • The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank. -- Aron Nimzowitsch
  • Of those who start TaeKwonDo training, only about 5% stick with it until they achieve the Black Belt Rank. Then perhaps 80% of those who earn a Black stop there. -- Duk Sung Son
  • I assure the ex servicemen that One Rank One Pension has been accepted in principle but it is in talks. We want to get a solution which is acceptable to all. Discussions have come to the final leg, we hope for a positive result. -- Narendra Modi
  • Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. -- Jean de la Bruyere
  • You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. -- Robert Frost
  • Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people. -- Mark Cuban
  • Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. -- H. L. Mencken
  • If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. -- Germaine Greer
  • Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. -- Mike Ditka
  • When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals. -- Lord Salisbury
  • Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. -- Desiderius Erasmus
  • Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. -- John Moody
  • I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin. -- Alexander Mackenzie
  • For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. -- Winston Churchill
  • Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization. -- Frederick Reines
  • The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. -- W. H. Auden
  • It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments. -- Dick Durbin
  • He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. -- Albert Einstein
  • Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. -- Madeleine Albright
  • Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. -- Johannes Brahms
  • The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor. -- Erin Duffy
  • There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also, 'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type - 'juniorize.' -- Susan Orlean
  • I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form. -- Steve Jobs
  • I am a rank individualist. -- Arthur Keith
  • The Gods rank work above virtues. -- Hesiod
  • There is no rank in sacrifice. -- Josephus Daniels
  • We salute the rank not the man -- Richard Winters
  • Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank. -- Carl von Clausewitz
  • Man's rank is his power to uplift. -- George MacDonald
  • There's no crying in the rank book. -- William Morton
  • Leadership is not a rank, it's a choice. -- Simon Sinek
  • I've always believed the New Left is rank. -- Lester Bangs
  • Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile. -- Lauryn Hill
  • Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank. -- Simon Sinek
  • O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven -- William Shakespeare
  • O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven. -- Claudius
  • His pomposity is overshadowed only by his rank stupidity -- Ann Coulter
  • Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. -- Juvenal
  • America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique. -- Matt Wagner
  • Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility. -- Peter Drucker
  • He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office. -- Vasily Zhukovsky
  • I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal. -- Thornton Wilder
  • The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. -- Ovid
  • The best by far is to marry in one's own rank. -- Aeschylus
  • A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man. -- Lucius Accius
  • Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices. -- Isaac Watts
  • There's nothing shameful about taking orders from a woman of superior rank. -- Lee Child
  • My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege. -- Peter Drucker
  • Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. -- Voltaire
  • An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank. -- Geoffrey Wolff
  • To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank. -- Blaise Pascal
  • Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way. -- Christina Stead
  • I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law. -- George Meredith
  • By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity. -- Bryant McGill
  • There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file. -- Wendell Phillips
  • The higher you go up in rank, usually the longer you can dance. -- Misty Copeland
  • Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt. -- Thomas Huxley
  • The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed. -- James Joyce
  • How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech? -- Bryant Gumbel
  • I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out. -- Joe Cronin
  • High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. -- Anthony Trollope
  • The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file -- Ernst Junger
  • I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me. -- Blanka Vlasic
  • [Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank! -- Joan Halifax
  • The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. -- Robert Burns
  • For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty. -- Philip Massinger
  • First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one. -- Michael Chertoff
  • It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. -- Roger Ascham
  • A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file. -- Woodrow Wilson
  • There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan. -- George Canning
  • Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second -- Victor Hugo
  • Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak. -- Larry McMurtry
  • They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts. -- John Adams
  • Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye. -- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
  • A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal. -- George Eliot
  • Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
  • Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else. -- Glenn Greenwald
  • Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending. -- Barbara Holland
  • See how many men of rank have been delivered from devils and healed of diseases! -- Tertullian
  • Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all. -- Bill Walton
  • For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man. -- Lloyd Alexander
  • To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
  • In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness. -- Suzanne Collins
  • I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character. -- Theodore Roosevelt
  • A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Most unfortunately, Enron's plunge into bankruptcy court also cost many of its rank-and-file employees their savings. -- Alex Berenson
  • No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file. -- Grover Norquist
  • Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank. -- Gloria Steinem
  • Obesity is now a problem in the navy. They've created a new rank: Really Big Rear Admiral. -- David Letterman
  • In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained -- Higa Yuchoku
  • What do you think? Young women of rank eat - you will never guess what - garlick! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Let no man, in whatever rank or superiority, control your mind and tell you what to do -- Christopher Paolini
  • Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank. -- Linda Chavez
  • I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file. -- Vincent Frank
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