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• I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers

  Philip K. Dick

  New York, Writing, Reality

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.126, Vintage

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• The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

  Murray Kempton

  Sacrifice, Reality, World

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.16, New York Review of Books

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• Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

  Paul Tsongas

  Mean, Thinking, Generations

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• Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Mean, Worldly

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• If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.

  Maimonides

  Humble, Humility, Saint

  Moses Maimonides, Isadore Twersky (1972). “A Maimonides Reader”, p.52, Behrman House, Inc

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• There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

  Derek Bok

  Thinking, Differences, Issues

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• I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don't think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that's the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing.

  David Gergen

  Thinking, Issues, Judging

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• Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects, such as its use of standard written English, television watching is acculturative.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Television Watching, Intellectual

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• I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more with fewer words than anybody. Most of the parables were less than 250 words. And, boy, did he have some one-liners just packed with truth.

  Mark Batterson

  Jesus, Mean, Boys

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• I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

  Sandra Brown

  Writing, Roles, Chance

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• The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.

  Colin Baker

  Writing, Stuff, Bigs

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• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  Ed Balls

  Strong, Party, Gold

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• In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

  Edward Bach

  Teaching, Civilization, Perfection

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• Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  Gary Bauer

  Law, Judging, Quality

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• The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.

  James L. Barksdale

  Thinking, People, Essentials

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• The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy.

  Michael Badnarik

  Hard Work, America, People

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• Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Stories, Used, Masters

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

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• As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Opportunity, India, Asia

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• Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

  Rose Byrne

  Looks, Want, Ridiculous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

  Tom Bergeron

  Trying, Want, Responsible

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• Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.

  John Cornyn

  Accountability, Political, Independence

  "Senator calls for Holder's resignation amid challenges over leak probe, Fast and Furious". www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2012.

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• All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role.

  Margaret Chan

  Experts, Roles, Groups

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Strong, Passion, Genius

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• The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

  John Doolittle

  Organization, Membership

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• I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

  William A. Dembski

  Atheist, Morality, Judgment

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