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“To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire into wages paid in various industries and to determine the standard which the public ought to sanction as a minimum; and we believe that, as a present installment of what we hope for in the future, there should be at once established in the Nation and its several States minimum standards for the wages of women, taking the present Massachusetts law as a basis from which to start and on which to improve.”

Should Believe Ends States Law Nations Industry Ought Standards Bases Paid Determine Various Minimum Wages Sanctions Minimum Wage Massachusetts Living Wage

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.”

World Humans May Ends Humanity Standards Oneness Formulas Superstitions Dogmatic

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.”

Ends Standards Creator Secure Users Web Content

Author:Paul Thurrott

“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.”

Ends Happens Becoming Elements Standards Consumers Apprehension Standards Of Living

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.”

Ends Song Strong Numbers Atheism Rocks Building Standards Positive Atheism Opening Concerts Rock And Roll Entrances Building Up

Author:Marjoe Gortner

“You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as Mexico, an end to immigration. You just won't. The question is, if you make it humane and if you make it regulated. It's much better for an American worker to compete against a regulated immigrant inside labor standards, than it is to ever to compete against an illegal immigrant.”

Ifs Ends Country Poor Rich Standards Labor Workers Immigration Borders Usa Immigrants Illegal Mexico Humane Illegal Immigrants American Workers

Author:Ezra Klein

“What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.”

Ends Values Virtue Modern Mankind Materials Standards Constant Advertising Appeals Material Things Elevating Standards And Values

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out.”

People Writing Believe Mean Ends Stories Spirit Guy Evil Strong I Believe Nice Horror Standards Philosophical Rotten Nice People Horror Stories Slugs

Author:Stephen King

“The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there are no absolute moral standards, that "every man prospers according to his genius, and that every man conquers according to his strength; and whatsoever a man does is no crime" and "that when a man is dead, that is the end thereof".”

Men Doe Ends Philosophy Moral Crime Example Genius Standards Absolutes Ancient Every Man Scripture Conquer Vogue Discredit Absolutism Ancient Philosophy

Author:D. Todd Christofferson

“Every movie I work with the costume designer to see what feels like the character, not what Columbus would wear but what is right for the character. Outside of the armored truck standard issue security guard uniform, this guy is trying to make ends meet. He might have one pair of jeans, the same boot, maybe changes his shirt but he doesn't have a walk-in closet full of things, so I wanted something comfortable that felt like the character.”

“The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.”

Way Ends Social Goal Achieve Standards Direct Strive Customs Conform Standards Set

Book:Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

Source: Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

“When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds.”

“Our audience holds us to an incredibly high standard of continuity and emotional authenticity. We don't toy with that, but oftentimes we write stories, in order to spark debate. We're very determined to always give the answer. We don't want to leave a lot of things open to debate, at the end of the day.”

Want Giving Writing Ends Stories Order Answers Audience Emotional Standards Determined Debate Authenticity The End Of The Day Sparks Toys Continuity High Standards

Author:Jeff Pinkner

“We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.”

Knows Humans Wells Ends Hard Stories Our Lives Return Pages Standards Disappear Collections Serving Nevertheless Being Human Anthology Countdown

Author:Junot Diaz

“It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be competitively successful in this situation. But at the other end, where standard components assembled in standard ways can yield acceptable performance, you must outsource.”

Way Giving Ends Enough Situation Successful Products Standards Performances Edges Yield Good Enough Acceptable Integration Components Not Good Enough

Author:Clayton Christensen

“Although I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the federal system treated me from beginning to end like a major criminal, and I still don't know why, other than that in those days, 6.5 ounces of heroin was a big load. Ludicrous by today's standards, when coke, heroin, and weed are shipped across the border by the ton.”

Knows Stills Ends Bigs Would Be Today Drug Majors Standards Bottom Criminals Treated Chains Borders Weed Load Heroin Coke Mules Food Chain

Author:Patricia McConnell

“Unfortunately there is a standard set for it that precedes hip-hop. It would be great if corporate America didn't do this, but there is a huge market for sex and violence and anti-Black representations in America and the world that doesn't begin or end with hip-hop.”

Ifs World Ends Would Be America Sex Black Violence Huge Standards Hip Hop Hips Corporate Hops Representation Corporate America Standards Set

Author:Bakari Kitwana

“One rational standard of action is how well it promotes the end it seeks. Another standard is whether it aims at ends which are good. Both of these, but especially the former, depend on judgments of fact.”

Wells Ends Facts Action Depends Judgment Standards Aim Rational Former

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Unfortunately, in Russia this "Asian mentality,"still comes to the fore. But at the same time, it is obvious that there is a certain orientation toward the West. In the end, this is a fragile balancing act between the Asian manner of governance and high living standards that are guaranteed through Western technology.”

Stills Ends Certain Technology Standards West Western Obvious Russia Fragile Mentality Governance Asian Orientation Balancing Act

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Most of the time, teachers who talk about the Middle East do not know the history, culture or present context of the problems they are discussing. So they go to the media, which quote government or academic "experts" (who often are no such thing) or journalists who, by virtue of working for the media, are supposed to know what they are talking about. In the end they know little or nothing beyond a standard line that reflects the perceptions of the US government and its special-interest supporters. That is what the students get. Indeed, that is what we all get.”

“Words become, 'product', so that it is as though you'd bought a 'hand-cooked' packet of crisps; there are different makes, various flavours, but in the end, they're all rather similar and while eating them while sipping white wine makes you feel posher than if you'd bought the bog-standard ones, afterwards you don't remember very much about them.”

Ifs Feels Different Ends Hands Remember White Products Eating Standards Wine Various Crisps Flavour Sipping Bogs White Wine

Author:Suhayl Saadi

“People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.”

People Wells Doe Ends Moral Standards Areas The End Of The Day Cheat

Author:Carl Lewis

“Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.”

Art Two War Ends Bigs Seems Understanding Situation Player Standards Winner Variables

Author:James Surowiecki

“But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.”

Ifs Way Want Years May Said I Can Ends Matter Joy My Own Standards Tradition Best Way Chosen Torture Sixty Condemning Fountainhead

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect a dissatisfaction with what—or who—is available. Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards. In Chamfort's words, 'It is sometimes said of a man who lives alone that he does not like society. This is like saying of a man that he does not like going for walks because he is not fond of walking at night in the forêt de Bondy.”

People Men May Doe Said Ends Sometimes Desire Night Walks Company Walking Standards Available Dissatisfaction Idealist High Standards

Author:Alain de Botton

“To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.”

People Thinking Littles Ends Body Might Would Be Imagine Standards Jokes Down And Faithful Attractive Nudity Being Faithful Stripping Submarines One For Me Torpedoes Propeller

Author:Charles Bukowski

“The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship possible: faith.”

Ends Facts Truth Christian Truth Is Standards Dues Paradox Superhuman Christian Truth

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.”

Life Firsts Art Stills Ends Light Science Force Nature Change Clear Source Judgment Standards Tests Universal Impart Light Life

Author:Alexander Pope

“To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.”

Firsts Ends Action Religion Events Judging Standards Ultimate Absolutes Believer Communism Meaning Of Life Marxism

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.”

Giving Should Ends Character Truth Forever Standards Rewards Expected Reputation Recognition Endeavor Signals Reminders Ever After Let Down

Author:Alvan Macauley

“In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.”

World Ends Wealth Achieve This World Materials Standards Commitment Built Legacy Judged Shallow Material Wealth

Author:Cesar Chavez

“Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.”

Ends Light Difficult Achieve Capable Standards Retirement Retiring Tunnels Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel

Author:Ian Botham

“When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.”

People Ends Taste Standards Meetings Law Of Attraction Exceptional

Author:Pierre Mac Orlan

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