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• Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Order, Imperfection, Secret

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• Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

  Criss Jami

  Silly, Certain, Brilliance

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.6, Criss Jami

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• I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven.

  Richard Wiseman

  Agree, Areas, Proven

  "Rupert Sheldrake and Richard Wiseman Clash Over Parapsychology Experiments". Interview with Alex Tsakiris, skeptiko.com.

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• It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing?' It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace.

  Criss Jami

  Sacrifice, Men, Order

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.85, Criss Jami

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• If the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children meet state standards, then allowing large numbers of the most disadvantaged children to fall between the cracks is unacceptable.

  Roy Barnes

  Children, Fall, Numbers

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• What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Long, People, Childhood

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we of this generation destroy the resources from which our children would otherwise derive their livelihood, we reduce the capacity of our land to support a population, and so either degrade the standard of living or deprive the coming generations of their fight to life on this continent.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Fighting, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Gold, Investing

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

  Michael Sandel

  Design, Political, Back When

  "'Whether we are arguing about MPs' expenses or assisted suicide, we need to engage with the moral ideals underlying our political debates'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2009.

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• By leveraging the Unicode Standard, Progress Software is enabling its ASPs (Application Service Providers) and ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to quickly and efficiently deliver their business applications to the Internet and to users around the world.

  Joseph Alsop

  Independent, Progress, Around The World

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• As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

  Robin Williams

  Drinking, Alcohol, Alcoholism

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". TV Special, www.imdb.com. December 6, 2009.

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• The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained

  Heber J. Grant

  Gambling, Practice, Games

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• Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Conceited, Ignorant

  William Hazlitt (1841). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers. By William Hazlitt. Third edition. Edited by his son [William Hazlitt the Younger].”, p.49

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• Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate.

  John D. MacDonald

  Hurt, Hate, Kids

  JOHN D. MACDONALD (1971). “A TAN AND SANDY SILENCE”

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• You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.

  William Stafford

  Writing, Assessment, Differences

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• People mistake their limitations for high standards.

  Jean Toomer

  Life, Mistake, People

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Teacher, Men, White

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• Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Want, Firsts

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2016

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• At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.

  E. J. Dionne

  Religious, Heart, Views

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• Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Dream, Men, Style

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• Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to public prevention of private abuses. For example: if you don’t like working a hundred hours a week for twenty-five cents a day, then find another employer! It is obvious to intelligent people, if not libertarians, that more generous employers will price themselves out of a market whose standards are set by the most rapacious.

  Michael Lind

  Intelligent, Light, People

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• Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Sports, Fitness, Knives

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• Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.

  Steve Garvey

  Baseball, Kids, Feet

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• In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Teamwork, Believe

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• The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Views, Long, Misunderstood

  "Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 2 - 3, 1987.

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