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I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?

Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

The people rate strength before everything.

...The evidence that fluoridation of the public water supply at the rate of one part per million is carcinogenic is irrefutable.

But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

Under my plan, 85 percent of America will pay no tax or have a flat tax at our lowest rate of 15 percent.

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area

Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity.

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

I'm at a really good spot in my career, to the point where I feel like I could explode at any moment. If I keep progressing with my game at this rate, I think I'll be a big factor

In most industries, technological change is happening at a rapid rate.

The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.

If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse.

Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves."

Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.

The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.

To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate.

As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.

India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.

India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.

India's growth rate will be accelerated, but in the process, America would also benefit.

The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.

D.N.A. sequences change by mutations, and the idea behind the molecular clock is that those changes occur at, more or less, a constant rate, over time.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

Most savings rates are based on underlying interest rates.

The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America.

For me, appropriate policy means that we continue to reduce accommodation and return to a neutral federal funds rate

There are so many currency exchange rate problems that people are buying gold as a safe haven. Right now, gold looks like a safe haven if international exchange rates break down.

We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement in those numbers. And that's a good thing.

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

Germany's problem, in part, is that it went into the euro at the wrong exchange rate that overvalued the deutsche mark.

I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75.