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The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate.

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

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.

Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York. It brought the crime rate way down. But you take the gun away from criminals that shouldn't be having it.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over digital rights, which I had.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.

They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

I'm ginger, so it's hard to rate me

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.

Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.

I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day .

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.

In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

When they so-called 'target the interest rate', what they're doing is controlling the money supply via the interest rate. The interest rate is only an intermediary instrument.

If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate ... but I can have a 100 percent compassion rate'.

I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of the second rate." I'm sort of haunted by that.

The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.

Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

Men are more visual creatures and rate women based on looks. We like to laugh and be shown a good time. I've never rated anyone on looks.

The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.

At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

You lower the [tax] rate, you will motivate and incentivize more people to put more capital at risk to create more jobs.

The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.

Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.

So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.

Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars.