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“The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.”

Giving May Two Ideas Causes Vision Fields Source Cooperation Double Standard Double Vision

Author:Johannes Peter Muller

“Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.”

Terrible Percent Bases Feds Inflation Terrible Things Chairman Double Standard

Author:Paul Volcker

“Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You’re looking at double work.”

Two Different Sports Difficult Different Things Pairs Transition Skating Singles Double Standard Two Different Things Skater

Author:Oksana Baiul

“A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.”

Seasons Favors Needy Double Standard

Author:Publilius Syrus

“I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.”

Names Goes On Paid Agents Double Standard

Author:Aldrich Ames

“If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.”

Ifs Form Combination Double Standard

Author:Francis Crick

“Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.”

Littles Sometimes Three Four Damn Rough Tanks Double Standard

Author:Lloyd Bridges

“But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.”

Stuff Cds Double Standard

Author:Glenn Danzig

“I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.”

Ifs Wanted Understood Instruments Double Standard Saxophone Clarinet

Author:Lee Konitz

“What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.”

Should Play Sports Numbers Should Have Double Standard

Author:Whitey Herzog

“I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.”

Thinking Whole Use Baseball Bunch Genre Theme Double Standard Pun Genre Is

Author:Rachel Griffiths

“You dirty, double-crossing rat.”

Dirty Rats Crossings Double Standard

Author:James Cagney

“What goes for sex goes double for politics.”

Sex Double Standard

Author:Kate Clinton

“We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.”

People Two Guy Rooms Fronts Phones Sat This Guy Double Standard Boiler Boiler Room

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Age Team Rings Hooked Formidable Double Standard

Author:Owen Hart

“I've had a dozen people tell me, maybe more, 'What would have happened if Michael Brown had shot and killed Darren Wilson? Do you think he would be free right now? Do you think he would not have been charged by now?' People just see this manifest double-standard in front of them that's coming at the long line of a whole bunch of grievances that have built up over time because of the dynamics of Ferguson and frankly, the dynamics of race in America more broadly.”

“The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.”

Thinking Sound Shadow Curious Strings Melancholy Cheerful Double Standard

Book:Conversations with Rita Dove

Source: Conversations with Rita Dove

“Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.”

World Way Made Matter Values Belief Mistake Circumstances Demand Standards Constant Working It Unusual Accommodate Double Standard Exemplary

Author:Mary Kay Ash

“The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?”

Thinking Matter Use Young Belief Energy Language Expression Standards Female Dresses Feminist Length Why Not Young Women Skirts Double Standard Condemning

Author:Amanda Marcotte

“The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.”

Men Heaven Church Moral Morality Standards Men And Women Code Fidelity Chastity Double Standard Moral Code Before Marriage

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.”

Ifs Play Lying Asks Five Minutes Crosses Five Minutes Double Standard Arafat

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.”