The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that… — Kurt Richebacher Copy Share Image
Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were… — Emun Elliott Copy Share Image
The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves.… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives… — Pete Domenici Copy Share Image
Only the mediocre are always at their best. If your standards are low, it is easy to meet those standards every single… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
People would like to place a standard on our show that doesn't exist. We're not set up for reporting; we don't have… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal… — Clark Gable Copy Share Image
Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My generation didn't face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
You want to provide as many opportunities and help rural schools as much as you can. But you can't do it at… — Mike Beebe Copy Share Image
If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the… — Dan Gable Copy Share Image
We were right to make the case for the U.K. to negotiate a comprehensive customs union with the E.U. And we are… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How would you possibly sell 700 companies in a fire sale and hope to get what they were worth?It's just an unrealistic… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In real constabularies, the relevant department that is the subject of 'Line of Duty' is called Professional Standards. However, 'Line of Duty'… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don’t care how condescending that… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I don't believe that the science is settled on man-made climate change. And so - while I live in Colorado - you… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess;… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as… — Sandy Berger Copy Share Image
Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would… — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not… — Saya Woolfalk Copy Share Image
When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems… — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude -… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
But the higher our standard of living, the higher our levels of education, the further people will look around. And we can… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Even by the diverse standards of Saturn's satellites, Enceladus was an outlier. Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Refereeing is always an issue where you want to have the best officials, and I think the referees do their very best… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
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