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“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

“Football is an absolutely idiotic pastime by any rational standards. You're running into other people as hard as you can, you get frequent muscle strains and ligament tears, and the protective padding really doesn't do all that much to absorb the blunt trauma.”

People Hard Running Tears Football Standards Trauma Rational Nfl Muscles Strain Protective Blunt Pastime Idiotic

Author:Chris Kluwe

“The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.”

Giving Science Ten Models Standards Mathematics Accuracy Decimals

Author:Nathan Seiberg

“Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?”

Christian Social Religious Standards Activist Biblical Mixing Religion And Politics

Author:Gary DeMar

“... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.”

“The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.”

Long War Christian Values Culture Religious Judgment Standards Ultimate Bases Campaigns Organized Insult Hostility Religious Faith Distortion Popular Culture Organized Religion

Author:Michael Medved

“The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the people in a society begin to throw off the restraints of history, then the restraints of written law, then accepted standards of morality, then established religion, and, finally God Himself.”

People Christian Law Spirit Religious Clear Written Fashion Morality Standards Majority Accepted Significant Minorities Restraint Antichrist

Book:The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1

Source: The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1

“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

“Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.”

America Money Majors Standards Gold Financial Panic 1930s Gold Standard

Author:Paul Krugman

“The home is a woman's natural background.... From the beginning I tried to have the policy of the store reflect as nearly as it was possible in the commercial world, those standards of comfort and grace which are apparent in a lovely home.”

World Home Natural Grace Policy Comfort Standards Stores Lovely Backgrounds

Author:Hortense Odlum

“The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the "right" value--i.e., art.) Denial of Agency: She didn't write it. Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it. Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about. False Categorizing: She is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could "she" have written "it"? Or simply: Neither "she" nor "it" exists (simple exclusion).”

Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing

“The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.”

Demand Eating Standards Constant Occasions Chinese Holiday Urges Pregnancy Unpredictable Needy Whim Chinese Food

Author:Alexander Theroux

“A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere.”

People Humans Reality Culture Process Rights Standards Aim Human Rights Setting Settings Evolve Abstract Living Reality

Author:Mary Robinson

“An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for astrict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.”

Purpose Special Involved Standards Rate Faithful Dramatic Relative Quotations Evaluation Indirect Intentionality

Book:Word and Object

Source: Word and Object

“If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”

Ifs Way Reason Belief Creatures Standards Rational Consistent No Reason Behaviour Rationality Revealing Utterance

Author:Donald Davidson

“The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.”

Ifs World Wells Matter Would Be Process Interest Practice Standards Workers Peaceful Well Being Consumers Shops Factories Defining Employers Collaborators Peaceful Places

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.”

Choices Perfect Progress Standards Perfection Activist Historian Gauges

Author:Jonathan Chait

“The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.”

Children Lessons Lows Standards Bounds Midst Slums Profanity Obscenity Impurity

Author:Albion Fellows Bacon

“When it comes to cyber warfare, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth. The technical sector is the backbone of the American economy, and if we start engaging in these kind of behaviors, in these kind of attacks, we're setting a standard, we're creating a new international norm of behavior that says this is what nations do. This is what developed nations do.”

Ifs Kind Earth Nations Loses Economy Behavior Creating Standards International Setting Settings Warfare Engaging Norm Backbone Cyber American Economy Cyber Warfare Developed Nations

Author:Edward Snowden

“The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.”

Long Important States Able United United States Security Standards Important Things Sake Adversaries Surveillance

Author:Edward Snowden

“What we need to do is we need to create new international standards of behavior - not just national laws, because this is a global problem. We can't just fix it in the United States, because there are other countries that don't follow U.S. laws. We have to create international standards that say that cyber attacks should only ever occur when it is absolutely necessary.”

Needs Should Country States Problem Law United United States Behavior Standards International Other Countries Cyber Cyber Attacks

Author:Edward Snowden

“We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.”

Needs Able Security Internet Standards Chinese Email Fbi Nsa

Author:Edward Snowden

“There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products. That's making us more vulnerable not just to the snooping of our domestic agencies, but also foreign agencies.”

Use Millions Products Standards Program Vulnerable Agency Insecure Default Nsa Encryption Snooping

Author:Edward Snowden

“Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.”

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“Whether at home or at work, ISTJs are nothing if not reliable, particularly when it comes to inspecting the people and things in their jurisdiction-quietly seeing to it that uniform quality of product is maintained, and that those around them uphold certain standards of attitude and conduct.”

People Ifs Home Certain Attitude Quality Seeing Products Standards Uniforms Jurisdiction

Book:Please Understand Me 2

Source: Please Understand Me 2

“Country music and the world will miss George Jones. He was someone who set a high standard in our industry for great music and lyrics that tapped into the emotions of the human heart at a very deep level. His music has touched the lives of country music lovers for over five decades. My prayers are with his family and I pray for the repose of his soul. May you rest in peace, brother.”

“Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things.”

Men Turns Impossible Standards Hatred Absolutes Tolerance Nature Of Man Unchangeable

Book:Liberalism Ancient and Modern

Source: Liberalism Ancient and Modern

“Jesse Jackson's in trouble. They're going after this tax thing. Jesse said he will amend his taxes to show the money that he paid to his mistress. See, he has just one mistress. Jesse uses the standard mistress deduction. As opposed to Clinton, who had to itemize.”

Said Use Shows Trouble Taxes Standards Paid Clinton Just One Mistress Deductions

Author:Jay Leno

“Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.”

Has Beens Use Used Courses Fiction Standards Metaphor Sensuality Devices Pioneers Chaucer Literary Devices

Author:Joanne Harris

“You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.”

Eye Standards Touching Public Eye High Standards

Author:Tiki Barber

“Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.”

Ifs Has Beens Said States Today Imagine Standards Candidates Secretary Embarrassing Larry High Standards Turned Down Gallagher Standards Set

Author:Jay Leno

“Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality-finds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.”

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.”

Needs Company Higher Standards Conversion Italian Higher Standards

Author:Brunello Cucinelli

“Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.”

Spirit Standards Humble Artificial

Author:Gary Zukav

“We can talk about the value of sportsmanship on one hand, and on the other hand, the leading shots, highlights ... you see every night are the outrageous and unsportsmanlike, so I think there is a double standard here. On the one hand, we complain about it, on the other hand it's the first thing you see every night.”

Thinking Firsts Hands Night Values Standards Shots Complaining Every Night Outrageous Highlights Double Standard Sportsmanship

Author:Joe Dumars

“The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency of natural selection, and more and more of the weaklings and the unfit survive, we must increase the standard, mental and physical, of parentage.”

Men Kind Doe Natural Standards Increase Selection Natural Selection

Book:Darwinism, Medical Progress and Eugenics: The Cavendish Lecture, 1912, an Address to the Medical Profession

Source: Darwinism, Medical Progress and Eugenics: The Cavendish Lecture, 1912, an Address to the Medical Profession

“No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.”

Ifs Use Growth Effort Class Style Circumstances Comfort Comfortable Standards Population Accustomed Population Growth

Author:Millicent Fawcett

“There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.”

Ifs Men Should Might Young Sex Achieve Danger Essentials Highest Capable Standards Males Sexism Judged Scholar Good Work Young Women Colleagues Advancement Best Work Chemist

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.”

Different Reading Nations Moral Morality Standards Code Customs Variables

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?”

Country Whole Levels Middle Standards East Middle East Saudis

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.”

Want Years States Today Levels United United States Ten Standards Europe Twenties Iran Standards Of Living

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!”

Men Made Matter Sides Business Hero Standards Method Oil Features Logical Ethical Contempt Depressing Business Success Most Depressing Standard Oil

Book:The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version

Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version

“Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.”

Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company

“we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.”

Character Standards Expenses Consumerism Standards Of Living

Book:All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

Source: All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

“A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.”

“Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.”

Poverty Struggle Standards Reflection Raises South Obesity Standards Of Living

Author:William R. Ferris

“Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard.”

Mean Doe Character Levels Common Politician Office Lows Standards Down And

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.”

Years Long Running Sound Money Paper Standards Years Ago Economics Gold Feds Steady Decline Currency Banking Deposits Gold Standard

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.”

People Needs Firsts Humans Heart Government Form Values Change Standards Constitution Human Heart Forms Of Government Human Values Clamor

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

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