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Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate.
I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
I tend to be very impatient, thinking about all the ways we can do something, my mind and hands spinning at a very fast rate.
Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.
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.
If you are happier than you have ever been, then your power is increasing. But is it a fast a rate of climb as you would like?
It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.
The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.
I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.
I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.
The evidence is pretty strong: if you have access to family planning and birth control, the abortion rate is going to go down.
If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.
It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.
The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.
Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
In the simplest terms, a fast-growing company can't keep growing at the same fast rate forever. It eventually has to slow down.
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
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.
Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.
I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.
Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate.
A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21 percent or more.
I top up my endurance with running and cycling because in a race, your heart rate is up at 150, so we have to train at that level.
The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.
I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.
The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment.
We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.
Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.
No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest.
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.
When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now.
A structured design approach can heighten the hit rate in the fuzzy front end of innovation processes in public and private sectors.
If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.
Even if I was running an idli shop for a living, I know that my idlis will taste good because that's how highly I rate my work ethic.
The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'
The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.
Changes that are being enhanced by technological innovation (social media being a case in point) are happening at an increasing rate.
If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved.
The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
The normal metric of measuring progress has actually been the rate of growth, OK? It's not a wrong metric, but it's not a full metric.
If we continue to print new paychecks at the rate we've been adding them, that mitigates a lot of the damage of higher gasoline prices.
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.
For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.
But if we set our minds to improving technology, we can improve it in a direction that seems important to us and even at a faster rate.
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.