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We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing and changing at a very, very rapid rate.

The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world.

a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.

People learn at the rate they are going to learn.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

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?

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.

The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.

I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.

My predecessor taxed wealthy, successful people at a higher rate than ever before. And what happened? They left. And what came of it? Did unemployment drop? No.

Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

The only continent with a growth rate lower than Europe is Antarctica.

At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate.

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate.

There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative. Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena

I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100%; we've always found a hole.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.

The murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who's doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.

If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.

Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.

What is the right exchange rate at one point is not necessarily the right exchange rate at another.

Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.

Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.

Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as high as you think.

The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.

Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.

Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring.

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.