Standards Quotes

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Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run… — Jamie Zawinski
The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over… — Ed Markey
I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle… — Ed Rendell
Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline. — Mark Kirk
It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the… — Robert Southey
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them. — James Jeans
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any… — Leon Trotsky
Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is… — Harold Rosenberg
They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with… — Thomas Keller
Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action… — Erich Fromm
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of… — Isaiah Berlin
You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals… — Whitney Houston
Amazingly, 85 percent of prescribed standard medical treatments across the board lack scientific validation, according to the New York Times. Richard Smith, editor of the… — Kenny Ausubel
When culture changes around us, God's standard of living does not. Even when we're engulfed by evil, the eyes of the Lord range to and… — David Jeremiah
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or… — Carl Gustav Hempel
Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can American continue to maintain a high standard of living, including providing national security for its… — Norman Ralph Augustine
This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have… — Henry David Thoreau
I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of… — John Fowles
New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and… — Marc Garneau
If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning… — John G. Rowland

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