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If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.
— William S. Burroughs
First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.
— Amit Kalantri
I wonder if it's ok being a second-rate painter.
— W. Somerset Maugham
If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.
— Kate Atkinson
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
— Jorge Luis Borges
Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
There are people who drive luxury cars, but have only second- or third-rate sofas in their homes. I put little trust in such people.
— Haruki Murakami
It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.
— Robert Kennedy
Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.
— Richard M. Nixon
I subscribed to the general theory that the worst room in the best hotel was better than the best room in a second-rate hotel.
— Beatriz Williams
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.
— Christopher Bram
The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.
— T Bone Burnett
There is no second place for doing first rate work.
— Jeffrey Fry
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
— Judy Garland
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
— Patrick Kavanagh
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
— Luis Walter Alvarez
Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.
— Bruce Oldfield
If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
— James Gould Cozzens
I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.
— Witold Gombrowicz
We've just got to face the fact that we're second rate. With the fate of humanity in our hands.
— Orson Scott Card
I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.
— John Collier
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
— David Morrell
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby.
— Paul-Jean Toulet
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
— Cyril Connolly
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
— Abraham Maslow
I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
— Thomas R. Marshall
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
— Jean De La Bruyere
We would not even need a statistician; a second-rate engineer would do.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Only the second-rate never make mistakes
— Peter Goldsworthy
There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.
— Gustav Holst
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.
— Walter Bagehot
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
— Andre Weil
A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
— Edwin Powell Hubble
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
— Maurice Ravel
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
— Margaret Atwood
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.
— Sarah Waters
If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.
— Daniel Dennett
In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
In 2013, Maryland had the second highest job creation rate of any state in the Mid Atlantic region - faster than both Pennsylvania and Virginia.
— Martin O'Malley
We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?
— Richard K. Morgan
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.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep
— Garrison Keillor
Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
— Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris
— L.M. Montgomery
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
— Natalia Ginzburg
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
— Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.
— Mary Jane Ward
