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«If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.»
«If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.»
Author: Bill Vaughn
| About:
Conformity
| Keywords:
conform, conformist, conformists, conform to, hates, nonconformist, nonconformists, nonconformity, prevailing, standard
«Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity /namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.»
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
(Founder)
| Keywords:
absurdity, contradiction, erroneous, erroneous belief, evident, existent, faculties, namely, Pleasure and Pain, self evident, standard, substance, supposition, The Standard, unreal, untrue
«America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.»
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Democracy
| Keywords:
advertiser, consumer, Consumer Society, Rest of the world, standard, The Advertiser, The Teacher, unrealistic
«A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
a people, ethics, judged, standard, standards, The WELL, well-being
«Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| Keywords:
excuse, expects, higher, responsible, responsible for, standard
«By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
accepted, counted, have died, Nine Lives, standard
«If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.»
Author: Leon Trotsky
| Keywords:
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«Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.»
«Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life -- not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving -- not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness -- not by our seeming greatness.»
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