Standards Quotes - Page 28

• Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

  Peter Kreeft

  Evil, Judgement, Doe

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• For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly discovered that Russia was a poor Third World country. They had not been equipped to take over the world. In fact, they were just trying to improve a miserable standard of oppressive living, and couldn't. They had to spend too much on arms build-up. We didn't win the Cold War; we bankrupted the Russians. In effect, it was a big bank exhausting the reserves of a smaller one.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, War, Winning

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• In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Military, Army, Men

  T. E. Lawrence (2013). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”, p.349, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Love You, School

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• The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

  Garry Shandling

  Would Be, Way, Comedy

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• By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Beauty, Oil

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.168, Ballantine Books

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• Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Healing, Mind, Her Beauty

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• Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life

  Tony Blair

  Space, Choices, Quality

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• ...because there are no local or State boundaries to the problems of our environment, the Federal Government must play an active, positive role. We can and will set standards. We can and will exercise leadership.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Exercise, Government, Play

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.93, Best Books on

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• No matter what someone else has done, it still matters how we treat people. It matters to our humanity that we treat offenders according to standards that we recognize as just. Justice is not revenge - it's deciding for a solution that is oriented towards peace, peace being the harder but more human way of reacting to injury. That is the very basis of the idea of rights.

  Judith Butler

  Revenge, Rights, Ideas

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• When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Boys, Mediocrity, Dozen

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Teacher, Simple, Labour Movement

  Speech to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL - CIO), December 11, 1961.

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• Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Creative, Intellectual, Dimensions

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• True Love comes into being when you practice the highest possible love in the lowest possible place. There you deal with impossible people and try to raise them into the highest possible people by showing them the highest possible standard. There is where True Love can be found and can start.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Practice, People, Trying

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• No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

  Hu Shih

  Religious, Europe, Chinese

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• Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Genius, Superiors

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school’s curriculum.

  David Lynch

  School, Creative, Preparation

  "David Lynch Meditates on Peace". Interview with Scoop A. Wasserstein, www.thecrimson.com. September 30, 2005.

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• We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.

  Cheri Huber

  Attitude, Intelligent, Choices

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• Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

  Seth Godin

  Action, Form, Settings

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• Keep your heel, head and standards high.

  Coco Chanel

  Heels

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• But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic – and in some cases clearly false – statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Israel, Iran, Nuclear

  "Elizabeth Warren Finally Speaks on Israel/Gaza, Sounds Like Netanyahu". readersupportednews.org. August 28, 2014.

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• The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

  Clark Gable

  Mother, Song, Fighting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.

  Howard Stern

  Night, All Time Low, Gone

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• I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Science, Fiction, World

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• The awkward truth, according to one study, is that 90 percent of 8-to-16-year-ol ds have viewed pornography online. Considering the standard climax to even the most vanilla hard-core scene today, that means there is an entire generation of young people who think sex ends with a money shot to the face.

  Gail Dines

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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