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You live and learn. At any rate, you live. -- Douglas Adams
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. -- Thomas J. Watson
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality. -- Baltasar Gracian
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. -- Oscar Wilde
Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended? -- Confucius
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet. -- Jane Goodall
Always be a first-rate version of yourself. -- Audrey Hepburn
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days. -- Patricia Ryan
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. -- Anna Quindlen
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. -- Judy Garland
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. -- Alan Watts
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. -- C. S. Lewis
Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals. -- Lois Capps
I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old. -- Warren Buffett
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism. -- Herman Melville
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own. -- Diane Ackerman
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis. -- Jay Leno
If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich. -- Mark Cuban
An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of every American living west of the Mississippi. If this trend continues, America will gradually sink into the status of a Third World nation - more unemployment, more shackles on production, more poverty. -- John Hospers
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek. -- Michael Shurtleff
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. -- Charles Darwin
Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. -- Richard E. Grant
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. -- Douglas Engelbart
I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry. -- David Bowie
I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable. -- Jessica Simpson
I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success. -- Anthony Goldbloom
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate. -- Ted Nugent
I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy. -- Lance Gross
Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding. -- Helen Clark
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
We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour. -- Holly Johnson
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic. -- Steve Jobs
If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high. -- Al Gore
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high. -- Randy Houser
The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating. -- Jeffrey Kluger
When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator. -- Paul Hawken
I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that. -- Matthew Gray Gubler
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. -- Barack Obama
If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form. -- Stephen Hawking
New York: A third-rate Babylon. -- H. L. Mencken
American workers are first rate. -- Christopher Dodd
The people rate strength before everything. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At this rate, I'll live forever. -- David O. Selznick
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. -- Edward Appleton
Our growth rate continues to be staggering. -- Jimmy Wales
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. -- Edward Appleton
Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad. -- Mark Twain
I'm ginger, so it's hard to rate me -- Jason Flemyng
Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate. -- Bruce Oldfield
Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No exchange rate for the confidence of youth. -- Elizabeth Strout
I was a baseball fan, at any rate. -- Hillary Clinton
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. -- G. H. Hardy
Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate. -- Wendell Phillips
My success rate is 100 percent. Do the math. -- Charlie Sheen
India needs to sustain its high growth rate. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
Routes rate me, not the other way around. -- Andy Cairns
I don't rate them, I just hit them. -- Willie Mays
The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. -- Hans Eysenck
Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
There is an intergenerational reoccurrence rate of 30% in incest. -- G. Pirooz Sholevar
Handel is only fourth rate. He's not even interesting. -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target. -- Ali Babacan
Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage. -- Suze Orman
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. -- Thomas J. Watson
At this rate, we'll never get to the future. -- Chuck Palahniuk
My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned. -- Alfred Doblin
Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate. -- August Krogh
You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate. -- Bill Watterson
There are many ways to make the death rate increase. -- Robert McNamara
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. -- Abraham Maslow
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. -- Leo Rosten
Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage. -- Suze Orman
At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy. -- Henry A. Kissinger
The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. -- Felix Baumgartner
People learn at the rate they are going to learn. -- Ben Folds
The way to succeed is to double your error rate. -- Thomas J. Watson
A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away. -- Dave Ramsey
If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate? -- Joseph Heller
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. -- Clive James
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack. -- D. Wayne Lukas
The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure. -- Og Mandino
I can only run the rate in which my heart beats. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails. -- William Poundstone
The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training. -- Erwin Rommel
let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? -- Maurice Ravel
I can only run as fast as the rate of my breath. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself ... -- Lady Caroline Lamb
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value. -- Irving Fisher
The only continent with a growth rate lower than Europe is Antarctica. -- Gisela Stuart
The interest rate you receive, however, is contingent on your credit score. -- Jean Chatzky
I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism. -- John Major
Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate. -- Henry Fielding
On a scale of one to ten, I would rate Elvis eleven. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
We evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged into. -- Caroline Myss
As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there. -- Scott Weiland
Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate. -- David Stockman
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating. -- Brian Schmidt
The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure. -- Thomas Watson
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate. -- Tom Robbins
The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference. -- William Farr
To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate. -- Heraclitus
The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing, -- Peter Diamandis
If it is a small rate raises, [there will be] no impact. -- Jamie Dimon
Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich. -- George Osborne
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts. -- Anton Chekhov

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