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• Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Views, Color

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.161, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.

  Alexander Morozevich

  Reality, Practice, Chess

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• The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Educational, Political, Sound

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject.

  Woody Allen

  People, Tragedy, Hollywood

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.

  John Cusack

  Decision, Important, These Days

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• In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use.

  Donald A. Norman

  Home, Office, Marketing

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 7, p. 216, 1988.

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• It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.

  William Winwood Reade

  Egypt, Soldier, Citizens

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.24

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• The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the "meaning" of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Soul, Solitude, Secret

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.71, Beacon Press

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• Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria

  J. D. Greear

  Temptation, Trying, Satan

  J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.50, B&H Publishing Group

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• Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.

  Benjamin Graham

  Successful, Unique, Technique

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

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• Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Reality, Law, Effectiveness

  "Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers". Book by Murray Gell-Mann and Harald Fritzsch, 2010.

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• The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Judging, Fundamentals

  John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.230, Harvard University Press

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• Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Goal, Innovation

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• By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

  Paul Ormerod

  Discipline, Economics, States

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.

  Max Horkheimer

  Thinking, Views, Goal

  "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 7-8), 1947.

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• In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at any given historical moment, ... the fathers of pragmatism made the satisfaction of the subject the criterion of truth. For such a doctrine there is no possibility of rejecting or even criticizing any species of belief that is enjoyed by its adherents.

  Max Horkheimer

  Father, Opposites, Ideas

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.35, A&C Black

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• I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Self Esteem, Generosity, Goal

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• We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people.

  W. Phillip Keller

  Christian, Character, People

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• A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

  Dieter Rams

  Design, Psychological, Used

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• The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.

  Frances Wright

  Country, Character, Men

  Frances Wright (1821). “Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820”, p.423

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• The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

  Edmund Burke

  Party, Judgement, Losing

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 7

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• An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.

  Jody Heymann

  Mean, Together, Immigration

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I used to like people more, but now I have children and that changes your life in a lot of ways. Like you spend time with people you never would have chosen to spend time with, not in a million years. I spend whole days with people, I'm like, "I never would have hung out with you. I didn't choose you. Our children chose each other based on no criteria by the way. They're the same size. They don't care who they make me hang out with."

  Louis C. K.

  Children, Thinking, Years

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• There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

  Vaclav Havel

  Art, Ideas, Political

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

  John Dewey

  Learning, School, Mean

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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