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"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"Countries that have strong pre-crisis macroeconomic metrics, rich natural resources and export-based industries have stronger recovery prospects. Strong budgets allow the government to stimulate the economy with less debt burden. Exports play a significant role in supporting a stable interest rate and ex-change rates thus renewing investors confidence and recovery." »Med Jones
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"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better." »Doris Lessing
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"Over the long term, if government revenues continue to be less than the expenditures (deficit). This will result in accumulated debt. An increasing government debt will result in higher interest payments, and less money available for socioeconomic development. To pay for the debt, the government will have to raise taxes, which will reduce the competitive position of the country in the global economy and chase investors away resulting in less economic activities and more job losses. In order to avoid higher unemployment and social instability, the government have to raise more debt to fund spending and welfare support by raising the interest rate which will increase the cost of money, reduce corporate profits and slow economic investments, thus resulting in more job losses and reduced government revenues, despite income tax increases. It is what I call a vicious economic cycle." »Med Jones
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"Over the long term, if government revenues continue to be less than the expenditures (deficit), then the economic health of the country worsens because this will result in accumulated debt. An increasing government debt will result in higher interest payments, and less money available for socioeconomic development. To pay for the debt, the government will have to raise taxes, which will reduce the competitive position of the country in the global economy and chase investors away resulting in less economic activities and more job losses. In order to avoid higher unemployment and social instability, the government have to raise more debt to fund spending and welfare support by raising the interest rate which will increase the cost of money, reduce corporate profits and slow economic investments, thus resulting in more job losses and reduced government revenues, despite income tax increases. It is what I call a vicious economic cycle." »Med Jones
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"A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own." »Adam Smith
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"All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life." »Thomas Mann
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"Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition." »Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
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"No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back." »John Holt
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"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." »Fran Lebowitz
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"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." »A. A. Milne
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." »Judy Garland
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"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"New York: A third-rate Babylon." »H. L. Mencken
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice." »Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926
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"The way to succeed is to double your error rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice." »Albert Einstein
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"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate." »Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
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"The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men" »Henry B. Adams
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"Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness." »Chamfort
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." »William Faulkner
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats." »Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
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"Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents." »Ezra Loomis Pound
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"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works..." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice." »Albert Einstein
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"If Cupidon your heart miss, deadly your body is. (Si cupidon rate le coeur, Il touche mortellement le corps)" »Charles de LEUSSE
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