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The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire,… — Jose Canseco
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested… — Charles Alexander Eastman
There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether… — Esther Hicks
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated… — William D. Leahy
A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning… — Otto Weininger
Its just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body. — Lasse Hallstrom
Peter Montiel has long set the highest standard for lucid textbooks on the macroeconomics of developing countries. Now in this new edition of his superb… — William Easterly
The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account… — Thomas Nagel
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean… — Francis Schaeffer
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had… — Francis Schaeffer
I want to set up a new standard: â€˜scientific journalism.â€™ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological… — Julian Assange
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional… — Robert Trout
According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting… — Seth Lloyd
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and… — Peter Thiel
It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate… — Niall Ferguson
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but… — Christian D. Larson
The Standard ... is the standard. — Mike Tomlin
We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to… — Raymond Williams
But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers… — Charles Koch
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to.… — Hideki Tojo

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