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• Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

  Krista Tippett

  Work, Compassion, Vocabulary

  "Reconnecting with compassion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. November 2010.

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• Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, High Standards, Mediocrity

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.

  William Thorsell

  Time, Stress, Pay

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• Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

  James Bovard

  Path, Certain, Liberation

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.76, Macmillan

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• Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

  Diego Rivera

  Art, Taste, Raises

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• The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Use, Advertising

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• The Journal of Discourses ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every right-minded Saint will certainly welcome with joy every Number as it comes forth from the press as an additional reflector of 'the light that shines from Zion's hill.

  George Q. Cannon

  Numbers, Light, Zion

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• Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

  Joseph Sobran

  Erosion, Together, Expansion

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• A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause -- and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fall, Mean, Self

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• Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

  J. R. D. Tata

  Perfect, Quality, Cleanliness

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• Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Hard Work, Quality, Details

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• When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Caring, World

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• Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.

  Ernst Cassirer

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

  Ernst Cassirer, Yale University. Louis Stern Memorial Fund (1944). “An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture”, New Haven : Yale University Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press

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• Ive been told that if I lose weight Id have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to Hollywood standards. To the rest of the world I am slim and I like the way I am.

  Liv Tyler

  Hollywood, World, Weight

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• I am willing to spend whatever it takes … My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I am the largest company by far in the industry and I am willing to speak out. I don’t see any compelling reason for the government to allow people to gamble on the Internet and nobody has ever explained except for the two companies whose special interest is going to be served if there is gaming on the Internet, Caesars and MGM.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Compelling Reason, Government, Speaks Out

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• We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.

  DeLoss Dodds

  School, Years, Missouri

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• Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fighting, Boss, Unions

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.147, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Order, Levels

  Liner notes for the album "Freak Out!", June 27, 1966.

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• Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, And Love, Morality

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.203, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

  Shirley Williams

  Running, Teacher, Children

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• The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

  Johan Huizinga

  Mean, Ethical Standards, Understanding

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• The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).

  Seth Godin

  Running, Home, Writing

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• You want to provide as many opportunities and help rural schools as much as you can. But you can't do it at the risk of affecting any of the quality standards and educational opportunities for any child, regardless of where they live and regardless of what the size of their school is.

  Mike Beebe

  Children, Educational, School

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• It's funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don't think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you're in control.

  Tom Ford

  Thinking, Age, Want

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