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Standards Quotes by Mark Twain
- There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in…
- Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have…
- The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality…
- No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference…
- The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it…
- Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very…
- I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
- To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
More Standards Quotes
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- With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI
- What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo
- Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks… — Blaise Pascal
- A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him… — Irving Babbitt
- Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the… — Bob Beauprez