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• I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.

  Robertson Davies

  Wise, Thinking, Trying

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.66, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self, Diversity, Black

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• Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Gold, Investing

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

  Aldo Leopold

  Men, Clients, Wildlife

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.246, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.

  Otto Weininger

  Lying, Consciousness, Difficulty

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.150, Рипол Классик

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• I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

  Pat Paulsen

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

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• Once you run and once you win with an unabashed progressive feminist standard, then it becomes easier for everybody else who's running.

  Christine Pelosi

  Running, Winning, Feminist

  "Christine Pelosi on the ‘Barbara Boxer Standard’ of Feminist Leadership". Interview with Emily Crockett, rewire.news. January 9, 2015.

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• Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Self, Principles, Faces

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Homeland: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.256, Wizards of the Coast

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• Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

  Anton Chekhov

  Ideas, Honor, Knows

  Anton Chekhov's letter to A.N. Pleshcheev, April 9, 1889.

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• The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.

  Samuel Smiles

  Self, Class, People

  1859 Self-Help, ch.10.

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• I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Suffering, Trying

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.22, VM eBooks

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• Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

  Lord Acton

  Religious, Integrity, Philosophical

  "Historical Essays and Studies". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.

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• I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, People, Support

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.

  Allison Mackie

  Love Is, Universal Love, Plugs

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• So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.

  Ossian Everett Mills

  Inspirational, Brother, Selfish

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• Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by then, will be a standard communications chip on many devices. We'll probably carry some kind of screen-based reading device that will perform this function, though I assume when we want to communicate verbally, we'll do so through a tiny, earplug-based device.

  Josh Quittner

  Communication, Reading, Want

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• Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.

  Oswald Chambers

  Grace, Soul, Sovereign

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• People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.

  Ricardo Semler

  People, Making Changes, Should

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• What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

  Stefon Harris

  Art, Thinking, Special

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• The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.

  Robert Briffault

  Character, Men, Evil

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• Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness cries the voice of Patrick White, Australian extraordinary, who has quite other, more austere and indeed prophetic ambitions. (...) (H)is failures are certainly the equivalent, and perhaps the measure, of other men's success.

  David Pryce-Jones

  Ambition, Men, Small Numbers

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• The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory , you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty .

  Richard P. Feynman

  Honesty, Integrity, Real

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

  Aristotle

  Way, May, Wealth

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1823). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.167

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• 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!

  Lewis Carroll

  Death, Character, Men

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.265, Delphi Classics

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• There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Animal, Men, Safe

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.150, 1982.

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