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Uploaded: 2025-11-04
Description: It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality -- a pitiable flight from life. As such, it deserves no compassion, it deserves no treatment as minority martyrdom,

Tyler Oakley

There are so many voices on YouTube, and there are incredible creators that are popular for a reason. And although it's great to be inspired by them, nobody is going to subscribe to a second-rate version of them. It's really important to put your best foot forward and be your best self because you will always be the number one version of you.

American Entertainer

John Boyne

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

Irish Novelist

G. H. Hardy

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

British Mathematician

Harry Kroto

If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.

English Scientist

Judy Garland

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

American Actress

Andrew Ross Sorkin

In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.

American Journalist

Richard Strauss

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

German Composer

Abraham Maslow

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

American Psychologist

Jean de la Bruyere

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

French Philosopher

Bruce Oldfield

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

English Designer

Use 'second-rate' to suggest something is less quality compared to available better options.

Quality Comparison

'Second-rate' often implies a mild criticism or a lack of excellence.

Slight Disparagement

Sometimes used in a neutral context, just to differentiate from the top-tier.

Not Always Negative

 It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality -- a pitiable flight from life. As such, it deserves no compassion, it deserves no treatment as minority martyrdom,

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