“Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to public prevention of private abuses. For example: if you don’t like working a hundred hours a week for twenty-five cents a day, then find another employer! It is obvious to intelligent people, if not libertarians, that more generous employers will price themselves out of a market whose standards are set by the most rapacious.” PeopleIfsFactsLightHoursFiveWeekExampleOffersStandardsHundredAbuseTwentiesIntelligentObviousLibertarianAlternativesGenerousCentsEvidentEmployersTwenty FivePrevention Author:Michael Lind
“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.” WantYearsStatesTodayLevelsUnitedUnited StatesTenStandardsEuropeTwentiesIranStandards Of Living Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“Twenty-six states have passed renewable portfolio standards, which simply says somewhere between 15% and 30% of their electricity will come from renewables by such-and-such a year. In Washington, D.C., they haven't done a damn thing.” YearsStatesDoneHavensSixStandardsTwentiesDamnElectricityPortfoliosDamn Things Author:Brian Schweitzer
“The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial ways. Some may scoff at this, saying that such "developments" don't represent Reformed thought. But by what standard? Perhaps by the Westminster Confession. But this is only one Reformed confession, and it was only ever a subordinate standard.” WayFirstsMayDifferentCenturyDevelopmentStandardsConsequenceTraditionTwentiesConfessionSubordinatesWestminster Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.” CenturyMastersStandardsTwentiesArchitectureNineteenth CenturyFourteenBuilderCarpenterMasonsApprenticeship Author:Martin Filler
“In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.” ThinkingWellsTodayForceSidesBoysTeachWiseSubjectsStandardsTwentiesMediocrityDozenEducation Today Author:C. S. Lewis
“The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.” PeopleFirstsChallengesCenturyStandardsTwentiesRaisesDecentStandards Of LivingRest Of Life Author:E. O. Wilson
“If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance.” IfsGivingShouldMayDoeEnoughFactsSeemsScienceLinesLevelsResultsFailingLowsDrawsStandardsHundredTwentiesExperimentsFiftySignificanceStatisticsCentsOddsScientific Facts Author:Ronald Fisher
“The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?” MenHumansWellsMaySpiritualAsksGreaterGreatnessStandardsTwentiesRegardIslamEmpiresFounders Author:Alphonse de Lamartine
“The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.” HumansHas BeensUseAnimalApproachStandardsPercentMiracleTwentiesChemicalsVegetablesApprovedPumpsPesticidesEpaDosage Book:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating