At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.

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I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;...

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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 whic...

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At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.

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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

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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.

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I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business.

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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.

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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

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

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Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

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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.

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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.
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.

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Always be a first rate version of your self instead of a second rate version of someone else.

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a ...

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

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