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“I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.”

Facts Differences Ability Opinion Standards Concerned Holes Hypothesis

Book:Challenges

Source: Challenges

“Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible under a free economy -- and a man's position is determined, not by his productive ability and achievement, but by political pull and force. Under both systems, sacrifice is invoked as a magic, omnipotent solution in any crisis -- and "the public good" is the altar on which victims are immolated.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.”

Looks Ability Technology Information Standards Species Information Technology

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“I wish and will continue to wish, that the German people should learn that by reason of practical examples afforded by their ability and work, they are not a second-rate or inferior people in comparison with others. On the contrary they are their equals according to all true standards of values and therefore entitled to equal rights in all respects.”

People Should Reason Values Wish Ability Rights Example Equal Standards Rate Contrary Practicals Comparison Inferiors Entitled Equal Rights Second Rate

Author:Adolf Hitler

“We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.”

Mean Ability Money Standards Contribution

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.”

Persons Character Ability Information Standards Praise

Author:Augustus Hare

“One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.”

World Way Humans Made Time Understanding Change Ability Changed Standards Dues Saving Made It Clock Zone Savings Daylight Telegraph Time Zones Saving Time Daylight Savings

Author:James Gleick

“It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.”

Source: TIES THAT STRESS

“I believe in an America that is on the march - an America respected by all nations, friends and foes alike - an America that is moving, doing, working, trying - a strong America in a world of peace. That peace must be based on world law and world order, on the mutual respect of all nations for the rights and powers of others and on a world economy in which no nation lacks the ability to provide a decent standard of living for all of its people.”

“The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.”

Source: Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy

“People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a different kind of way than they worked for other people. They gave him arrangements that are just sublime on every level. And he, of course, could match that because he had this ability to get inside of the song in a sort of a conversational way. Frank sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards.”

People Way Should Kind Different Today Song Courses Ability Levels Standards Pops Singers Different Kinds Frank Arrangements Sublime

Author:Bob Dylan

“The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities”

Self Ability Self Improvement Standards Performances Improvement Selected Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura