Standards Quotes

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more… — Ayn Rand
Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. — John W. Gardner
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
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
Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really… — Louise Hay
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. — Mae West
Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him. — Albert Einstein
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
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows… — John Quincy Adams
Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and… — Charles Lindbergh
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
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to… — Woody Allen
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the… — G. H. Hardy
Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Labor is the true standard of value. — Abraham Lincoln

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