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“I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.”

Knows Two Running Lasts Past Week Months Standards Speed Ran Olympics Championship Improving Over The Past Constantly Improving

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.”

Two Different Animal Wise Standards Beast Toms Traps Different Animals Quads

Author:Tommy Lee

“No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.”

Men World Years Two Work Cities He Man Sorrow Eternal Standards Labor Crosses Lonely Wander Thirty Shops Village Agony Homeless Obscure Success And Failure Shameful Carpenter True Life

Author:Frederic Farrar

“The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy diversity; they don't create any incentives; they don't produce solar, hydro, nuclear.”

Should Two Reason Moments Energy Common Produce Diversity Standards Nuclear Common Sense Reason Why Accountability Adopted Incentives Input Output

Author:Frank Luntz

“When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.”

World Two War Matter Three Eating Standards Raises Cooking Lifetime Meals

Author:Will Rogers

“You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.”

Years Two Running Business Standards Congress Oil Two Years Motor Transfers General Motors Standard Oil

Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

“There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.”

People Wells Looks May Two Today Certain Levels Economic Building Standards Economics Oppression Climbs Conformity Mediocrity Quarrels Mold Ceilings Standards Of Living

Author:Ronald Reagan

“A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich; and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.”

Has Beens Two Enjoy Class Rich Middle Standards Ordinary Workers Population Decades Luxury Proportion Britain Middle Class Prerogative

Author:Anthony Crosland

“Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.”

Two Wisdom Politics Individual Economy Battle Standards Property Liberalism Collectives Banner Great Battle

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.”

“Consider the standard two-person married couple. ... They will share a VCR, a microwave, etc. This is not a matter of ideology or even personal inclination. It is practically the definition of marriage. Marriage is socialism among two people.”

People Persons Two Matter Share Couple Married Standards Definitions Socialism Ideology Etc Inclination Married Couples Microwaves Vcr

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.”

Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

“Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.”

Firsts Two Community Policy Materials Activity Standards Determination Contemporary Factors Mediums Organs Offensive Hinges Fcc

Author:Doug Ose

“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.”

“I have no two separate moral standards for the sex.”

Two Sex Moral Morality Standards

Author:Caroline Wells Healey Dall

“Today we are at a crossroads. The technology is available for two great options: The massive surveillance state, or the renewed freedom of a deeply-involved citizenry thinking independently and holding the government to the highest standards.”

Thinking Two States Government Today Technology Involved Highest Standards Available Massive Surveillance Crossroads Citizenry Surveillance State

Author:Oliver DeMille

“At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They cease to function, whatever that function may have been, and must be carried around like a sack, or two, of flour.”

Humans May Has Beens Two Dies Minutes Standards Sitting Function Theater Cease Chairs Flour Buttocks

Author:Michael J. Nelson

“Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'”

Ifs Thinking Writing Two Enough Three Asks Literature Worst Lows Standards Sentences

Author:Carol Bly

“There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.”

Humans Two Rights Particular Standards Environmental Human Rights Experts Activist Framework Developmental

Author:Mary Robinson

“You think homosexuality is disgusting? Then, it follows as the night the day, that you find sex disgusting, for there is nothing done between two men or two women that is, by any objective standard, different from that which is done between a man and a woman.”

Thinking Men Two Different Done Night Sex Standards Objectives Disgusting Homosexuality

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted them. Now Margo Jefferson, who is hard on me and the fellas, wrote in the Times that she has nocturnal, erotic fantasies about John Wayne. What's up with these feminists? Do you see these double standards these feminists have? They dream about John Wayne, but they're hard on us [Black men].”

Men Two Hard Dream Past Father Black White Leader Fantasy Standards Feminist Erotic Great Leader Wayne Double Standard Deserted Fellas Nocturnal

Author:Ishmael Reed

“I've had two jobs my whole life. I worked at FedEx for, like, two days, and I worked at Popeye's for a week. I just needed a check. It was a standard thing for people where I'm from. Well, people from there that did what I did for a living, you know what I'm saying? Go get you a quick check when you mess your money up.”

People Knows Wells Two Whole Jobs Week Needed Standards Whole Life Checks Mess Two Days Two Jobs Popeye

Author:Fetty Wap

“Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.”

“The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is not reasonable to claim that the people rules itself through the political institutions. In comparison, I find that the standard European system is better, also as a model for global democracy.”

People Should Two Different Political Courses Party Democracy Models Standards Claims Institutions Reasonable Comparison Political Institutions Two Party System

Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo

“You have got to have two things in education reform. You have got to have some flexibility, so people can figure out what to do. But you also have to have accountable, basically what the Common Core standards were, some sort of set of national standards, so we can measure.”

People Two Common Figures Standards Core Reform Two Things Flexibility Education Reform Common Core National Standards

Author:David Brooks

“I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two different sets of judgment.”

Thinking Art Two Different Use Reality Judgment Standards Double Standard

Author:Ai Weiwei

“I didn't audition or anything like that. But I went into John Loganhis office... It was his screening room in his office, actually, and I sat and schmoozed with him for about two minutes, which I think is standard, and, y'know, we got on fine.”

Thinking Knows Two Rooms Minutes Fine Office Standards Sat Auditions Screening

Author:Brent Spiner

“The word translated, koan, it means a problem. But it's a very special problem. And to strip it down to the way it works, you are given a problem which has no rational solution. There is a contradiction built into it. One standard - one is this is the sound of two hands clapping. What is the sound of one hand clapping? And so on. All right, so the first thing is that it brings your rational mind to an impasse.”

Way Mind Firsts Mean Two Problem Hands Given Sound Special Solutions Standards Built Rational Contradiction Two Hands Clapping Impasse

Author:Huston Smith

“If you look at the history of Obama, with the crimes he's committed, in office, publicly, and gotten by with that, you understand two things: First of all, that he's a criminal, really, by any standard of decency, and he's a great liar.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Two Crime Office Standards Committed Criminals Two Things Liars Decency Great Liar

Author:Lyndon LaRouche

“The term 'human rights' has been too often associated with conditionality, and with concerns of developing countries that in order to benefit from open trade they would be required to implement immediately labour and environmental standards of a comparable level to those applied in industrialised countries. At the same time, debates about the primacy of trade as against human rights legal codes have contributed to maintaining the unfortunate impression that the two bodies of law are pursuing incompatible aims.”

“On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.”

Two Space Standards Tests Backgrounds Pilots Crew Commanders Astronaut Space Shuttle

Author:Sally Ride

“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

“When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse”

Doe Two Home Hands Fall Girl Virtue Standards Assuming Saving Two Things Eighteen

Book:Sister Carrie

Source: Sister Carrie

“We are sometimes told that we are not a biblical church. We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old World, this great and good Holy Bible is one of our standard works. We teach from it. We bear testimony of it. We read from it. It strengthens our testimony. And we add to that this great second witness, the Book of Mormon, the testament of the New World, for as the Bible says, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall [all things] be established" (2 Cor. 13:1).”

World Two Book Sometimes Three Church Teach Wonderful Bears Holy Standards Mouths All Things Add Witness New World Biblical Testament Testimony Holy Bible Old World

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.”

Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's behavior couldn't be measured by human standard's of normalcy... or by any standards of normalcy at all. Bitten”

Knows Should Humans Wells Said Two Today Left Waiting Hours Known Know How Behavior Messages Standards Should Have Machines Checks Gates Coming Back Clay Waiting For You Normalcy

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.”

Life Firsts Two Found Voice Cities Novel Heard Pages Singing Standards First Time Tales Trough Tale Of Two Cities I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Author:Maya Angelou

“Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?”

Knows Should I Can Two Book Facts Brain Feet Minutes Standards Miles Should I

Author:Albert Einstein

“The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.”

Source: REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels

“Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy.”

Ifs Two Done Lasts Crazy Minutes Bed Singing Standards Lifts Jumping Eyebrows Blake Last Minute Death Bed Yummy Happy Death

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.”

People World Way Two Suffering Hate Moral Standards Tragedy Midst Transforming Hate God Transforming The World

Author:Kirk Cameron

“And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the millions, I, too, was potentially everything at birth. I, too, was stunted, narrowed, warped, by my environment, my outcroppings of heredity. I, too, will find a set of beliefs, of standards to live by, yet the very satisfaction of finding them will be marred by the fact that I have reached the ultimate in shallow, two-dimensional living — a set of values.”

Thinking Two Matter Facts Values Belief Realizing Ability Existence Millions Environment Sea Birth Findings Standards Ultimate Satisfaction Defined Live By Shallow Heredity

Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.”

Made Two Nice Our Lives Minutes Standards Freak Tattooed

Book:franny and zooey

Source: franny and zooey

“That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.”

People World Writing Persons Said Two Whole Enjoy Secret Ten Standards Whole World Just One High Standards

Book:Bluebeard: A Novel

Source: Bluebeard: A Novel

“We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.”

Believe Long Two Death Taxes Standards Inevitability

Author:Erwin Griswold

“To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.”

“We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.”

Men Want Believe Two Young Leadership Basketball Standards Young Man Coaching Nba Dedicated Ambitious

Author:Bear Bryant

“We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.”

Two States United United States Century Military Standards Defined Quarters Marine Marine Corps Prowess Usmc United States Marine United States Marine Corps My Marine

Author:James L. Jones

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