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• Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

  Ed Markey

  New York, Moving, Fire

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• Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right.  It has nothing to do with fixing things.  It has nothing to do with standards.  Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move forward.  It is a loop-an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole.

  Julia Cameron

  Moving, Writing, Sight

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• The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

  John L. Lewis

  Home, Government, Organization

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Standards Of Beauty, Ultimate

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• Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products

  Niklaus Wirth

  Code Quality, People, Perfection

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• Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Gold, Commodity

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1981). “What Has Government Done to Our Money?”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Independent, Ambition

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.585, Lulu Press, Inc

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• An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

  Alan Greenspan

  Freedom, Issues, Gold

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.89, Penguin

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• Good motives aside, white condescension does more damage than good. White condescension says to a black child, 'The rules used by other ethnic groups don't apply to you. Forget about work hard, get an education, posses good values. No, for you, we'll alter the rules by lowering the standards and expecting less.' Expect less, get less.

  Larry Elder

  Children, Hard Work, White

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• The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Independent, Political, Gold

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

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• Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.

  Sandy Berger

  Powerful, School, Quality

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• Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Goal, Selfishness

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• I want a girl who respects herself. It means her standards are high and if I fit them then id be honored. If she's easy then what does that say about me?

  Harry Styles

  Girl, Mean, Doe

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• I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

  James Lovelock

  Religious, Way, Feels

  "James Lovelock on the value of sceptics and why Copenhagen was doomed". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.

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• Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

  Evan Parker

  Air, People, Musical

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• Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions…..Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Real, Heart, Who I Am

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.13, John Wiley & Sons

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• Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

  Taiichi Ohno

  Kaizen

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