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My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own… — Sarah Jessica Parker
Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard… — John C. Maxwell
As society advances the standard of poverty rises. — Theodore Parker
Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind… — Hedi Slimane
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of… — Thorstein Veblen
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. — Oscar Wilde
The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have… — Gijs de Vries
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. — Bjarne Stroustrup
Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it… — Victor J. Stenger
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes… — Max Wertheimer
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your… — Ted Koppel
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in… — Sugata Mitra
To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's… — Bill Gates
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. — Mae West
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the… — Michael Josephson
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the… — Ayn Rand
The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is no historic record… — Henry Hazlitt
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute… — Steven Weinberg
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw

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