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• It is still difficult for many to believe that a deception of such magnitude is possible. Deceptions and false declarations have ben the standard in the politics of the powerful, and certainly are in Israel's policy toward the Palestinians from the start.

  Tanya Reinhart

  Powerful, Believe, Israel

  Tanya Reinhart (2011). “Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948”, p.37, Seven Stories Press

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• What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.... a tour de force by one of England's best novelists.... Atonement is a spectacular book; as good a novel - and more satisfying... - than anything McEwan has written....sublimely written narrative.... The Dunkirk passage is a stupendous piece of writing, a set piece that could easily stand on its own.

  Noah Richler

  Book, Writing, Joy

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• Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology, and culture. () It's time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. History teaches us that if we don't, someone else will.

  Jack Donovan

  Philosophy, Technology, Order

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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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• There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

  Komla Dumor

  Opportunity, Given, Consistent

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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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• Never forget that you are a [child] of God. He loves you. Live by your standards. Stand up for what you believe in. Sometimes it is not easy, and you may be standing alone for a while. Look for friends with integrity and character, then go to them and express appreciation for their examples. You might even find someone who has been feeling as lonely as you. Pray for guidance and protection from the Lord. He will sustain you. He will become a trusted friend, and you will discover that your example will attract many friends who will take courage from your strength of character.

  W. Craig Zwick

  Lonely, Appreciation, Children

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• The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Reality, Deaf And Blind, World

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• The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to become, after a time, an indispensable necessity taken for granted by everyone. Luxury consumption provides industry with the stimulus to discover and introduce new, things. It is one of the dynamic factors in our economy. To it we owe the progressive innovations by which the standard of living of all strata of the population has been gradually raised.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Taken, Luxury, People

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.19, VM eBooks

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• I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.

  Charles Bukowski

  School, Eye, Men

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Stars, Night, Air

  JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE (1836). “THE CULPRIT FAY”, p.89

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• Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

  Maria Shriver

  Looks, How You Feel, Way

  Maria Shriver (2000). “Ten Things I Wish I'd Known: Before I Went Out Into the Real World”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music.

  John R. Rickford

  Self, Appreciate, Soul

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• War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Country, War, Men

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• Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But your standards kept going up with your skills, the business aspect of writing grows more complicated, and it becomes really hard to maintain any semblance of a balanced life the longer you're at this. No matter what level you're at, writing is always difficult.

  Lori Wilde

  Writing, Skills, Stories

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• We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.

  Price Pritchett

  Running, Careers, Organization

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• Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Monday Morning, Pay

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.100, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... They have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.

  David Albert

  Should Have, Doe, Stories

  "On the Origin of Everything". www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2012.

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• I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

  Gary Cherone

  Records, Jazz, Enough

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• Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act.

  Beano Cook

  Fans, Nebraska, Should

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• This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse.

  Julian Simon

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

  Stephen Hawking

  Running, Different, Spirit

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• The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Order, Government

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• Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

  Gloria Steinem

  Individuality, Special, Eating Disorder

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• Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

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