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In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the… — Carl Sagan
Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less… — Anne Wilkes Tucker
Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man? — Henry David Thoreau
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed… — Winston Churchill
Always live up to your standards â€” by lowering them, if necessary. — Mignon McLaughlin
God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Nobody knows but you what it is thatâ€™s sacred to you as far as what you want to manifest in your life. You need to… — Gay Hendricks
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to… — John F. Kennedy
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. — William Hazlitt
Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from… — Albert Schweitzer
Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase.… — Gloria Steinem
People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in… — Hubert H. Humphrey
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation. — Richard Lamm
Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly… — Margaret Mead
We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. — Aldo Leopold
Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves. — Reed Hundt
The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards. — Max Lucado
Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it… — Lucy Larcom
All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its… — Margaret Fuller

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