“ You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step. ”
- Antonio Porchia- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business. ”
- Jack E. Reichert- Copy
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“ Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and regularity in things than it really finds. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, you're ready to feel shocked and some degree of shame, coming in as a rich westerner. ”
- Ralph Fiennes- Copy
- 1.8K
“ They are a national championship-caliber team. They are... as good as any team in the nation. ”
- John Robinson- Copy
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“ My colleagues are getting nervous. We talk a lot about the president's unfavorable ratings. Have you noticed the ratings of Congress lately? ”
- John McCain- Copy
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“ One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you — suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too… ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression… ”
- George Leonard- Copy
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“ But the Modern Utopia must not be static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and overcome the great stream of things, but rather float upon it. We build now not citadels, but ships of state. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes. ”
- Mao Zedong- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future. ”
- John Edward- Copy
- 1.1K
“ At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
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“ The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 3.3K
“ All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. ”
- Bobby Knight- Copy
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“ It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. ”
- George Sand- Copy
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“ Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
- 275
“ Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ I wish she was smart enough to teach second grade, too, next year. ”
- William Goumas first grade pupil- Copy
- 460
“ But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances. ”
- Leslie Wexner- Copy
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“ It's in the preparation in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot. ”
- Diane Sawyer- Copy
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“ I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. ”
- Jeff Foxworthy- Copy
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“ Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
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