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Quote Left At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats. Quote Right
Quote Left 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;... Quote Right
Quote Left 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... Quote Right
Quote Left You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. Quote Right
Quote Left I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor Quote Right
Quote Left A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected. Quote Right
Quote Left Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. Quote Right
Quote Left Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Quote Right
Quote Left Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Quote Right
Quote Left Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor. Quote Right
Quote Left Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else. Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left Always be a first rate version of your self instead of a second rate version of someone else. Quote Right
Quote Left Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Science Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right
Quote Left 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 ... Quote Right
Quote Left 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. Quote Right

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Quote Left 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 happy only when it is thinking. -- A. A. MILNE Quote Right

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