Standards Quotes

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Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own,… — Steve Perry
Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This… — Calvin Coolidge
I also believe this blessed land was set apart in a very special way, a country created by men and women who came here not… — Ronald Reagan
The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there… — C.S. Lewis
[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting… — Alexander Hamilton
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result… — James Madison
It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. He personified… — Ronald Reagan
If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard… — Alexander Hamilton
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it… — Alexander Hamilton
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In… — Ronald Reagan
Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.… — Mary Baker Eddy
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would… — Carly Simon
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an… — Duke Ellington
It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people,… — George Washington
[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give… — Alexander Hamilton
If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call an… — Duke Ellington
The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements… — Alexander Hamilton
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
The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have to manifest a… — Robert Peston

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