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Letter "F" » first rate
«There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.»
Author: B. C. Forbes
(Editor, Founder)
| Keywords:
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«No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras.»
Author: Edmund Wilson
| Keywords:
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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.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| About:
Ability,
Intelligence,
Testing
| Keywords:
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«Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else»
Author: Judy Garland
| Keywords:
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«Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.»
Author: Judy Garland
| About:
Dignity
| Keywords:
first rate, my version, rate, second rate, Somebody else, version, versions
«With first-rate sherry flowing into second-rate whores,And third-rate conversation without one single pause:Just like a young coupleBetween the wars.»
«A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting»
«A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.»
«What place does the possibility of a second front occupy in the Soviet estimates of the current situation? A most important place; one might say a place a first-rate importance»
Author: Joseph Stalin
(Communist leader, Political Dictator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
estimates, first rate, occupy, soviet, The Current
«Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Common sense,
Science
| Keywords:
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