Top 100 Quotes About Rank

#1. There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

George Washington

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#2. To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

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#3. Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Jean De La Bruyere

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#4. Though Israel is charged with engaging in genocide against Palestinians, in the last 20 years, the number of Palestinians has doubled; and since Israel's founding in 1948, the Palestinian population has grown five-fold. It must surely rank as the least effective genocide in world history.

Dennis Prager

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#5. All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

Tacitus

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#6. Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

Larry McMurtry

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#7. They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow ( Schlaukopf ) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

Otto Von Bismarck

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#8. It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Camille Pissarro

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#9. High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

Anthony Trollope

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#10. No matter what authority Satan and his subjects have temporarily been allowed in this world system, Christ can pull rank anytime He wants to.

Beth Moore

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#11. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you - not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.

Simon Sinek

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#12. America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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#13. Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher purpose with the rank of their blessings and talents.

Shannon L. Alder

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#14. Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.

Catharine Beecher

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#15. Whenever he began to see me as something more than a liability or a weapon,
whenever we spoke to each other without the barrier of rank and history between us, he backed away, more often than not insulting me to force the distance. Merit - Chicagoland Vampires

Chloe Neill

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#16. If people think about options in terms of their features rather than as a whole, different options may rank as second best (or even best) with respect to each individual feature.

Barry Schwartz

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#17. Parents have bought into the world's pastimes chock-full of pop culture, and it is searing the souls of our children. Parents have allowed electronic babysitters to infiltrate their homes and minds; young people's sense of right and wrong is being choked by wild and rank weeds in a moral wasteland.

Billy Graham

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#18. I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#19. Shadow was in a dark place, and the thing staring at him wore a buffalo's head, rank and furry with huge wet eyes. Its body was a man's body, oiled and slick.

Neil Gaiman

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#20. Mortality is a cause for humility, she said to me. None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father was taken. Death, like birth, comes to us all, regardless of rank or station in life.

Sena Jeter Naslund

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#21. It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

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#22. Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

Henry David Thoreau

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#23. To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

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#24. Interagency cooperation was all well and good, but it was understood to be the sport of the aristocracy; rank-and-file workers like Jacob were expected to keep to their own kind.

Robert Kroese

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#25. But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.

Tertullian

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#26. There's a monument due me by rank already
I'd blow the damn thing up with dynamite
So strongly I hate every kind of dead thing
So much I adore every kind of life!

Vladimir Mayakovsky

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#27. At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

T.C. Boyle

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#28. Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

James C. Maxwell

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#29. Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .

Ernest Renan

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#30. She could do things when her body was busy that she could at no other time, things like assemble her worries into ranks, each rank commanded by a hope.

John Crowley

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#31. Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

Saint Augustine

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#32. He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.

William Shakespeare

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#33. He sniffed his armpits just to see if they were rank, but they weren't. Let's hear it for twenty-first century deodorant.

Lisa Marie Rice

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#34. Nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust.

Ulysses S. Grant

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#35. I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

Edward Gibbon

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#36. You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

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#37. Likable leaders truly believe that everyone, regardless of rank or ability, is worth their time and attention. They make everyone feel valuable because they believe that everyone is valuable.

Travis Bradberry

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#38. I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

Blanka Vlasic

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#39. Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.

Janny Wurts

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#40. Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#41. No need to speak with those who may rank higher than you by caste but are beneath you in your contribution.

Kiera Cass

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#42. No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Bruce Barton

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#43. Please. The word was disgusting as it came out, rank with misuse, and he felt irritation in the midst of his panic. But it was the panic that drove this train, panic that pushed every retort out of his mind and left him broken and desperate, in front of this man.

Alessandra Torre

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#44. With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Jon Meacham

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#45. Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.

Simon Sinek

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#46. If we do nothing ... and turn our backs now, in future generations, when rank corruption masquerades as libery, it will be upon our shoulders. True patriots will then ask why we who were there to witness our nation at the crossroads did nothing.

David Liss

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#47. God's penis would still rank high among those vistas a priest and a nun could not comfortably share.

James K. Morrow

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#48. Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna."
["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]

Juvenal

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#49. I have done zero SEO on my websites and online platforms, but I still rank well on them because of the fact that I focused on content, providing value, answering questions.

Chris Ducker

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#50. It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.

Thomas De Quincey

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#51. A map of the moon ... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcanic operations. Our sublimest volcanoes would rank among the smaller lunar eminences; and our Etnas are but spitting furnaces.

James Dwight Dana

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#52. Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right ...
That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

Rumi

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#53. I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

Texas Battle

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#54. How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech?

Bryant Gumbel

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#55. I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.

Patricia Briggs

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#56. The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Germaine Greer

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#57. Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.

Terence Lewis

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#58. Logan had been there earlier and refused to leave, but Mason made him go. He wanted alone time with me when I woke. He said he pulled Boyfriend Rank. It would've been nice to see Logan, but I understood.

Tijan

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#59. Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on the Mississippi
Don Quixote swept admiration for medieval chivalry-silliness out of existence. Ivanhoe restored it. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

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#60. Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Samuel Johnson

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#61. Those who endlessly praise the rank of martyrdom must first attain that rank! No invented rank is superior to the life! You stick to the life and let the fools stick to the death.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#62. Masters of the first rank are recognized by the fact that in matters great and small they know how to find an end perfectly, be it the end of a melody or a thought.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#63. Man may have rank and position and a thousand qualifications, he may possess all the good of the earth, but if he lacks the art of personality he is poor indeed. It is in this art that man shows the nobility which belongs to the kingdom of God.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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#64. No one does more harm in the Church than he who has the title or rank of holiness and acts perversely.

Gregory The Great

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#65. When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on my body, and my injuries were ranked on the second rank of invalids. The first rank is the most severe. So, that means that I had lost more than 60 per cent of working capability.

Nguyen Tan Dung

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#66. One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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#67. There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

Sarah Josepha Hale

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#68. The rank of a university is similar to an index number say like the NASDAQ index. I don't understand how you can take an institution like Harvard, Stanford, or Michigan, and represent it by an index number. The concept makes no sense.

Henry Rosovsky

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#69. Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.

Homer

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#70. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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#71. What provokes me worst of all are our fateful bourgeois distinctions of rank. Of course I know as well as anyone that differences of class are necessary, and that they work greatly to my own advantage: but I wish they would not place obstacles in my way when I might enjoy a little pleasure ...

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#72. If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#73. I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

Vikas Swarup

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#74. She was the eldest now and had inherited the vague, relentless, unsolicited responsibility such familial rank demanded.

Kate Morton

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#75. Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.

Bill Walton

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#76. I'm not worried about where I rank between other QBs in the league.

Eli Manning

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#77. Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help that we are largely overlooked. There have been policies to woo parents, pensioners and the sick, but the young do not appear to rank high on any political agenda.

Alexandra Adornetto

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#78. The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.

Alexander Alekhine

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#79. I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land
every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike
all snored in the same language.

Malcolm X

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#80. The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

George Bernard Shaw

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#81. You glowed in the cool moonlight last night, when you mutinied against fate, and claimed your rank as my equal.

Charlotte Bronte

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#82. Many men wanted to be with her for her beauty and her rank. But she wanted an equal.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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#83. From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.

Marquis De Lafayette

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#84. Rank is a paycheck. Respect is earned. If you find yourself reminding people of your rank, then you are just a paycheck.

Michael A. Wood Jr.

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#85. I've had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to do. I was never good at auditioning. There are a number of actors over the years come up the ranks who are horrific at auditioning.

Johnny Depp

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#86. There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.

William Shenstone

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#87. There is no rank in sacrifice.

Josephus Daniels

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#88. In the beginning God said, the four-dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric, second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light, and it was good. And on the seventh day he rested.

Michio Kaku

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#89. O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.

Claudius

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#90. To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.

Jose Raul Capablanca

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#91. Just shut your mouth, you ignorant twat."
"Aw, Dallas, he called me a twat. How come you get to be a bitch, but I only get to be a twat."
"It's the rank," Eve told her. "You'll make bitch one day."
"Thanks. That means a lot to me.

J.D. Robb

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#92. Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other expenditures for a person of your rank, consecrate all you have to your children's education.

Sophie Von La Roche

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#93. Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

Elizabeth I

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#94. For the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.

Gilbert Burnet

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#95. Now quantitatively we rank things on something called alpha over standard deviation, which is the return independent of the market divided by volatility. Usually, to get a high ranking, you need some buying pressure.

Louis Navellier

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#96. ... the reciprocal obligation from man to man holds the first rank; what regards ourselves, ought to be considered relatively to the influence that we may possess over the destiny of others...

Germaine De Stael

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#97. It was an age when I'd immediately scan and rank other girls, keeping up a constant tally of how I fell short.

Emma Cline

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#98. O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

William Shakespeare

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#99. I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Anwar Sadat

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#100. Pukka sahib or rank outsider
gentleman or bounder
and it's accent, accent, all the way.

Christina Stead

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