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After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If… — Douglas Gwyn
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but… — William Hazlitt
Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing… — Stephen Jay Gould
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be… — Ambrose Bierce
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it… — Mark Twain
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others. — David Lloyd George
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those… — John Dryden
Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. .… — Epictetus
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account… — Ernest Hemingway
Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as… — Margaret Fuller
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison… — Thomas Sowell
Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the… — Sam Keen
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be… — Paul Cezanne
Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from… — Ned Rorem
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time… — Nathaniel Branden
The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is… — Thorstein Veblen
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence,… — Janet Fitch
Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. — Naomi Wolf
Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform. — Susan Cain
I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives such as coal… — Pete Domenici
By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a… — Paul Goldberger
The eureka moment is two reasons why the output-based standard should be adopted: common sense and accountability. Input-based standards don't encourage energy diversity; they don't… — Frank Luntz

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