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Letter "S" » standard
«The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.»
Author: Ira Erwin
| About:
Discovery
| Keywords:
differently, discoveries, looked, situation, standard
«There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
current, elucidation, liable, maxim, right and wrong, standard, The Current
«There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.»
«Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
| Keywords:
conveniences, distractions, modern society, nipple, nipples, production, rising, standard, suckle, suckled, suckling
«The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.»
«Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.»
«To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.»
«The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
aim, as many, breed, citizenry, dissent, dissenting, dissents, enlightenment, individuals, level, originality, public, public education, put down, reduce, safe, spread, standard, the Enlightenment
«Set yourself as the standard»
«Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.»
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