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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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  Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Self Esteem, Achievement, Black

  Address at the Republican National Convention, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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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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• Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

  Gary Ackerman

  Pride, People, Sometimes

  "WABC Special - Interview With Congressman Gary Ackerman". "The John Batchelor and Paul Alexander Show", www.jonathanpollard.org. July 29, 2001.

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• The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

  Paul Volcker

  Average, Decline, Standards Of Living

  "Volcker Asserts U.S. Must Trim Living Standard". www.nytimes.com. October 18, 1979.

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• Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

  Bill Hayden

  Linux, Available

  "Interview with Cosmoe's Bill Hayden". Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. May 13, 2002.

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• The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.

  Bill Walsh

  Winning, Nfl, Champion

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.48, Penguin

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• Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

  Taiichi Ohno

  Kaizen

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• There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.

  Leonard Susskind

  Philosophy, Science, Reality

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• We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Decision, Brain

  "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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• I love Koscielny, I’ve seen him a lot. He has good leg speed, which reminds me of Lilian [Thuram]. The last time we spoke I told him to work hard and he’ll become one of the best defenders in the world. He’s at the standard of a Vidic or Pique. I mean that sincerely.

  Marcel Desailly

  Mean, Hard Work, Legs

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• Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.

  Ralph Raico

  Honesty, Men, Blood

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• Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

  David Maister

  Believe, Excellence, Compromise

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• Broken wings fit more easily in standard-size boxes.

  Mikhail Turovsky

  Wings, Broken, Size

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• Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

  Robert McCracken

  Real, Character, Men

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• It is impossible not to notice Ruby on Rails. It has had a huge effect both in
  and outside the Ruby community... Rails has become a standard to which even
  well-established tools are comparing themselves to.

  Martin Fowler

  Community, Tools, Rubies

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• I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

  Barry Zito

  Running, Giving Up, Cocky

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• By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

  Walter Rodney

  Slavery, Violence, Morality

  "The Groundings with my Brothers". Book by Walter Rodney, 1969.

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• One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Weakness, Libertarian, Theory

  "Skepticism and Freedom". Book by Richard Epstein, 2003.

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• Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

  Molly Ivins

  Heart, Giving, Salary

  "Labor’s Fight Is OUR Fight" by Dave Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Cutting, White

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• When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.

  Craig Groeschel

  Giving, Judging, Would Be

  Craig Groeschel (2012). “Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World”, p.174, Zondervan

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• It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.

  Hideo Kojima

  Nice, Movement, World

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• The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

  Andrew Bacevich

  War, Mad, Victory

  Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books

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• Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Philosophy, Home

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