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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

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.

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.

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.

If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

I got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.

My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.