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• The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained

  Heber J. Grant

  Gambling, Practice, Games

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• Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate.

  John D. MacDonald

  Hurt, Hate, Kids

  JOHN D. MACDONALD (1971). “A TAN AND SANDY SILENCE”

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• You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.

  William Stafford

  Writing, Assessment, Differences

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• People mistake their limitations for high standards.

  Jean Toomer

  Life, Mistake, People

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Want, Firsts

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2016

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• At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.

  E. J. Dionne

  Religious, Heart, Views

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• Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Sports, Fitness, Knives

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• Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.

  Steve Garvey

  Baseball, Kids, Feet

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• In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Teamwork, Believe

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• I get shocked by people smoking cigarettes sometimes. i get shocked by watching talk shows. people's moralities are so far below what i would consider standard.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Smoking, Anarchy

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• Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

  Alan Bennett

  Littles, Statistics, Might

  "Forty Years On" by Alan Bennett, Act 2, (p. 80), 1972.

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• When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The other is whether the model is consistent with the 'real world.'

  Kenneth A. Bollen

  Real, Data, Two

  Kenneth A. Bollen (2014). “Structural Equations with Latent Variables”, p.70, John Wiley & Sons

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• Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Success, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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• A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

  Ayn Rand

  Zero, Suffering, Weakness

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.32, Penguin

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• It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, People, Favors

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• The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

  Ruth Benedict

  Community, Patterns, Firsts

  Patterns of Culture ch. 1 (1934)

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• A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In such cases we have a sense in which the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be performer and observer of the same show. Presumably he introcepts or incorporates the standards he attempts to maintain in the presence of others so that even in their absence his conscience requires him to act in a socially proper way.

  Erving Goffman

  Taken, Reality, May

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• Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

  Richard Sennett

  Technique, Impossible

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• Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity?  In the faith of the New Testament it is central.  The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of itand any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards

  J. I. Packer

  Son, Missing, Way

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• I think the voters believe that when you become president of the United States, you have a higher obligation and a higher standard than anybody in the world. And if you violate that standard, they're going to remember it on election day.

  Bob Dole

  Believe, Thinking, President

  "Dole, Clinton Push On Toward Tuesday's Vote". www.cnn.com.

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• Lower your standards and relax as it is.

  Pema Chodron

  Relax

  Pema Chodron (2006). “Practicing Peace in Times of War”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Lying, Statistics, Measurement

  "Infections and Inequalities". Book by Paul Farmer, p. 1, 1999.

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• I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes's horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to.

  Matthew Freud

  Mean, Media, News

  "Fox hunt: cracks in Murdoch dynasty as TV news chief finds himself in firing line" by Andrew Clark and James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2010.

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• The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Messages, Poor, Possibility

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• The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable

  Barbara Mikulski

  Military, Rights, America

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