“There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.” PeopleWritingRealityFormCultureLeftWonderComedyTvsStandardsRomanticHarderEntertainmentGenreClassicLegitimacyReality Tv Author:Nancy Meyers
“Back in 1960, the paper dollar and the silver dollar both were the same value. They circulated next to each other. Today? The paper dollar has lost 95% of its value, while the silver dollar is worth $34, and produced a 2-3 times rise in real value. Since we left the gold standard in 1971, both gold and silver have become superior inflation hedges.” RealTodayValuesNextLostLeftPaperStandardsGoldDollarsSuperiorsSilverInflation1960sReal ValueGold And SilverGold Standard Author:Mark Skousen
“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.” ArtJobsLeftCircumstancesStandardsOrdinaryDisappearLeft Alone Author:Michael Kimmelman
“If the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children meet state standards, then allowing large numbers of the most disadvantaged children to fall between the cracks is unacceptable.” IfsChildrenStatesFallLeftGoalNumbersBehindsStandardsCracksAllowingLeft BehindLarge NumbersDisadvantagedNo Child Left Behind Author:Roy Barnes
“When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.” IfsWorldPersonsHas BeensStillsFactsJobsLeftStandardsJokesIdealsMovedPracticalsIgnorantCherishObscureManhoodIndulgeIndulge InDiscardedBoyhoodGaugesPractical Joke Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain
“Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?” DoeAsksLeftAuthorityStandardsConceptsAreasHolesMake SenseRelativeBeltsRestrictionDiscretionDoughnut Book:Taking Rights Seriously Source: Taking Rights Seriously
“There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.” LeftStandardsAmerican HistoryLoyalists Author:Rachel Martin
“All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue.” CountryFightingLeftWishPartyStruggleOughtDemandStandardsEnlightenmentAimWingsBottomEnlightenedLive ByConsumerismOverconsumptionStandards Of LivingLeft WingRobberyRobbing Book:The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage Source: The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage