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• Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.

  Hugh Hefner

  Wrinkles, Body, Faces

  Interview with Larry Dubois, iplayboy.com. January 1, 1974.

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• Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.

  Nick Hornby

  Heart, Swings, Cds

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.186, Penguin

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• Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard attained was wholly admirable; to Spain flocked the greatest scientists, thinkers, astronomers, and mathematicians of the world, and side by side there flourished a spirit of sweet human tolerance and a sense of purist chivalry. Then with the advent of Christianity, came the barbarians.

  Adolf Hitler

  Sweet, Tolerance, World

  "Hitler's secret Conversations". Book by H R Trevor-Roper, p. 542, 1953.

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• Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, United States, Matter

  Christopher Hitchens (1994). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.220, Verso

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• 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.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Elements, Becoming, Ends

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.55, M.E. Sharpe

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• A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Habit, Scales, Expenditures

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.68, e-artnow

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• I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Double Standard, Coming Out, Sexism

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• The demand of the day is for a higher standard and style of Christian life. Every follower of Christ must represent His religion purely, loftily, impressively, before that multitude of "Bible-readers" whose only Bible is the Christian.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Christian, Style, Followers

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 115, 1895.

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• The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Mean, Technology, Intellectual

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 10), 1964.

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• God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.

  Ellen G. White

  Divine Wisdom, Sides, High Standards

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Special Testimonies Series: A and B”, p.422, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?

  Stewart Brand

  Block, House, Greek

  "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto". Book by Stewart Brand, 2009.

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• 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.

  Anthony Crosland

  Class, Two, Luxury

  "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

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• I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

  Gay Talese

  Art, Writing, Journalism

  "Lecture: Gay Talese". Bullpen: NYU Journalism, September 14, 2006.

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• Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we will hold it as a sacred inviolable thing. But in the absence of that infallible criterion, we have all an equal right to grope about in our search of it, and no body and no school nor clique must be allowed to set up a standard of orthodoxy which shall bar the freedom of scientific inquiry.

  William Stanley Jevons

  School, Body, Sacred

  "The Theory of Political Economy". Book by William Stanley Jevons, 1871.

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• Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.

  Franz Boas

  Ethical Standards, Good Man, Way

  Foreword to "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.

  Hal Clement

  Thinking, Insanity, Aberration

  "Mission of Gravity" by Hal Clement, (Ch. 9), 1954.

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• All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Physics, Mathematical, Geometry

  "Proceedings of the Gibbs Symposium: Yale University, May 15-17, 1989" by D. G. Caldi, ‎George D. Mostow, (p. 230), 1989.

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• If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Respect, Moving, Commitment

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.

  Cory Doctorow

  Microsoft, Body, Stuff

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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• I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

  Rio Ferdinand

  High Standards, Knows, Seasons

  "Gerrard sounds clarion call", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2005.

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• If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled.

  Benjamin Graham

  Mistake, Investing Money, Training

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.

  Benjamin Graham

  War, Mean, Important

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham. Part II, Chapter IV, A Plan For Conserving Surplus, p. 50, 1937.

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• The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience.

  Benjamin Graham

  Past, Light, Years

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.

  Denzel Washington

  Please Me, Play, Consistency

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably higher marks... The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.

  Mark Shields

  Jobs, Creating, Care

  "David Gergen and Mark Shields on Bill Clinton's 100 Days". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 29, 1993.

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