Standards Quotes - Page 36

• Should or can there be a single standard of behavior for both sexes? Is there such a thing as a biologically rooted female culture that should remain separate from male culture, partly because it is different than or superior to male culture? Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Sex, Skills, Culture

  "Women And Madness". Book by Phyllis Chesler, 2005.

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• A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books appear almost accidentally, like a sudden surge in the stock market. There are books of high quality that are a part of the culture, but that is not the same. They are a part of it. They aren't carrying it anywhere. They may talk about insanity sympathetically, for example, because that's the standard cultural attitude. But they don't carry any suggestion that insanity might be something other than sickness or degeneracy.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Attitude, Book, Writing

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

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• Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man. Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.Joy is wealth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Powerful, Mistake, Successful

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.207, Library of Alexandria

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• Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs safe from ordinary standards of evaluation, can only corrupt this fabric, just as a contradiction can corrupt a system of logic, allowing falsehoods to proliferate through it.

  Steven Pinker

  Ideas, People, Ordinary

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• I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Years, People, Expectations

  "Swingin' Chicks of the '60s: A Tribute to 101 of the Decade's Defining Women". Book by Chris Strodder, 2000.

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• Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into the "mindless entertainment" genre have as much going for them as this movie. Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics.

  James Berardinelli

  Memories, Hero, Fall

  "Die Hard (United States, 1988)". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net.

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• Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.

  John Cassian

  Men, Law, Circles

  John Cassian, Aeterna Press (2016). “John Cassian Collection [4 Books]”, p.671, Aeterna Press

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• The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the nature of the monetary system has a profound impact on the interests of powerful groups and states. Affected groups and states will always try to intervene in the operation of the system to make it serve their interests.

  Robert Gilpin

  Dream, Powerful, Impact

  "The Political Economy of International Relations". Book by Robert Gilpin, 1987.

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• But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

  Alan Hirsch

  Real, Sacrifice, Action

  "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

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• If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

  Michael Hudson

  United States, Today, Asia

  "Higher Taxes on Top 1% Equals Higher Productivity". therealnews.com. January 1, 2011.

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• We have federal standards for everything in America except the one thing you need most - your health.

  Steve Kagen

  America, Needs, One Thing

  "Why I Declined My Congressional Health Coverage". www.dailykos.com. June 29, 2007.

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• All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of those only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in existence before the adoption of the standard text, and out of which it was created.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Adoption, Greek, Six

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 39, 1949.

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• Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women's bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.

  Jack McDevitt

  Sorry, Integrity, Character

  "Deepsix". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2001.

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• When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.

  Jack McDevitt

  Mean, People, Visibility

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.

  Ilana Mercer

  Government, Voting, Unorthodox

  "Life in the Oink Sector". www.wnd.com. September 25, 2009.

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• By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.

  Ilana Mercer

  Standards Set, Libertarian, Speech

  "Fee-fi-fo-fem, I Smell The Blood Of A Racist". www.wnd.com. May 15, 2014.

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• We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Europe, Income, High Standards

  "At the Top: An interview with Jens Stoltenberg". Interview in Torgrim Eggen, 2001.

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• It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.

  Georgy Zhukov

  Strong, War, Clear Goals

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 15), 2002.

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• Don't wait till you get bigger to put in place key items, such as staff surveys, peer interviewing for hiring and clear standards of behavior [developed by staff].

  Quint Studer

  Keys, Waiting, Peers

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• Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue that it is the only way to achieve true goodness.

  David G. McAfee

  Believe, Way, Moral

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Nov 09, 2011

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• According to the world standards, following the prophet may be unpopular, politically incorrect or socially unacceptable, but following the prophet is always right.

  Carol F. McConkie

  World, May, Prophet

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• The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Eagles, Dollars, Devotion

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1850). “The literati: some honest opinions about autorial merits and demerits, with occasional works of personality. Together with marginalia, suggestions, and essays”, p.527

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• An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  War, Writing, Reflection

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• Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophical, Hands, Ideas

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• For a machine to run smoothly and predictably,
  its parts must be standard and hence replaceable,
  features which contribute, respectively,
  to modern depersonalization and anxiety.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Running, Anxiety, Machines

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