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• The American people have got a touchstone: Which party voted for the tools necessary to protect America and which party didn't? And that's what I'm trying to get people to focus on.

  George W. Bush

  Party, America, People

  "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

  Robert Hughes

  Keys, Ideas, Doubt

  Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, p.30, Knopf

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• People feel that the Bible is unequivocal in stating that the age of the earth is very young and so on and so forth, and so the big things get lumped together with the lesser things. And the age of the earth is for example virtually made a touchstone of doctrine, when there's so much evidence out there in science against it.

  John Lennox

  People, Age, Together

  Source: thinkingaboutcreation.blogspot.com

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• If you don't find that people find you're easier to live with than you were before, if you don't find that your heart is feeling warmer toward others and if your negative emotions are not getting any better, then there's something wrong. That is always the touchstone of the Dharma practice.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Heart, Practice, People

  Source: fpmt.org

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• The realization that The Art of Obscurity is my 25th solo album prompted me to do some deep thinking about where I am, where I’m going and what I still want to achieve from this life in music. In my heart I feel vital and passionate about the creative process and that my best work is the next one I finish. It doesn’t necessarily work out that clean, but for me, it can be the only touchstone.

  Iain Matthews

  Art, Thinking, Work Out

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• Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Reality, Faithful

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• It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.

  Tate Taylor

  Eye, Giving, Movement

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• My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

  Ted Cruz

  Constitution

  "Ted Cruz Puts Dewhurst on Defensive in Last Debate Before Texas Runoff" By Roque Planas, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2012.

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• California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Hard Work, California

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• Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.

  Toni Morrison

  Black, Black Women, Humans

  Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Men, Mind

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• Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

  Ellen Goodman

  Parent, Missing, Traveler

  Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• It [World of Warcraft] is a touchstone. It has established standards, it's established how you play an MMO. Every MMO that comes out, I play and look at it. And if they break any of the WoW rules, in my book that's pretty dumb.

  Greg Zeschuk

  Book, Play, Dumb

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• The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.

  Henri Matisse

  Garden, Doors, Order

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• The touchstone of the Holy Spirit’s work in us is the answer to our Lord’s question: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Son, Destiny

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Bringing Sons Unto Glory: Studies in the Life of Our Lord”, p.33, Discovery House

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• Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

  Peter Drucker

  Top Management, Challenges, Innovation

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.149, Routledge

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• A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Strength, Mom, Mother

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• What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.

  Ted Cruz

  Common Sense, Principles, Constitution

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.

  Benjamin Graham

  Successful, Intelligent, Technique

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 21, 1949.

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• By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.

  Dwight Macdonald

  Mean, Men, Personality

  Dwight Macdonald (1953). “The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics”

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• I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can't just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Thinking, Race

  "After the Great Recession". Interview with David Leonhardt, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2009.

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• The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.

  Timothy Keller

  Biblical, Judging, Church

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• We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

  Jeff Bezos

  Starting, Backwards, Customers

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• Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and the judgment that vichyssoise is cold expresses the fact that vichyssoise is cold.

  David Berlinski

  Judgement, Facts, Cold

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Pain is the touchstone of all growth

  Bill W.

  Pain, Growth

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