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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
You ask people, do you pray to a person or God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves… — Cesar Chavez
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. — Oscar Wilde
Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way… — Malcolm X
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. — Alan Paton
The rotten apple spoils his companion. — Benjamin Franklin
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality… — Gene Tunney
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

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