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Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you… — David Packard
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of… — Nelson Mandela
Asked if he knew how important Stardust would be, Mitchell Parish said he did have a gut feeling that this was a momentous one. But… — Paul Zollo
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring… — H. L. Mencken
Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're… — Anne McCaffrey
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the… — William Hazlitt
The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as… — Barbara Kingsolver
The standard is the same. Don't get me wrong, the main difference is the number of sparring partners. Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn are the… — Unknown Author
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the… — Tony Robbins
I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer… — Jay Leno
Jesus did not die for pastors to have a well paid job. Neither was He raised on the cross just to raise our standard of… — Reinhard Bonnke
The paper standard is self-destructive. — Hans F. Sennholz
The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency… — Hans F. Sennholz
The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty. — Hans F. Sennholz
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing friends and family.… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear… — Norman Rush
My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars. — Joss Whedon

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