"We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others."
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"I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry."
"China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%."
"Taigs don't pay rates."
"To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate."
"Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning."
"Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct."
"Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete."
"The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate."
"Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education."
"The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men."
"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."
"Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp."
"If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?"
"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."
"I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it."
"I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply."
"If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at any rate. Or at least, if I'm not opposed, I'm very highly skeptical and critical of it."
"She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate."
"While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best."
"Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning."