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The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.

If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

It [AI] would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded.

When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.

Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.

It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.

You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

Routes rate me, not the other way around.

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

Success will (a.mel.io.rate), ameliorate all the years of your sadness.

Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.

In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments, Star Trek will be long gone by that time.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now.

At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients advance wherever their business occurs.

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent

We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night... and reduce the crime rate.

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.

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

The one instrument that has relative political autonomy is monetary policy. Central banks do not need to go to Congress to get approval for an interest rate hike.

It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.