"I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning."
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"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."
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"The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later."
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"To double your successes, you might have to double your failure rate."
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"The next time a prostitute solicits your business, ask for the clergyman's rate."
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"The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture."
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"It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap."
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"The people rate strength before everything."
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"The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate."
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"Most savings rates are based on underlying interest rates."
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"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?"
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