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Henry David Thoreau quote: "Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a..."
Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man? Henry David Thoreau
The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy. Paul Gillmor
I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day. Bridget Fonda
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place. Larry Flynt
Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. Daniel Ellsberg
I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live. Gordon Strachan
The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent. Joseph Hume
It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing. Andy Stern
America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards. Charles W. Pickering
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 to be changed. Gijs de Vries
Paul A. Volcker quote: "Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin..."
Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad. Paul A. Volcker
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards. Brian Tracy
Jean Toomer quote: "Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no..."
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. Jean Toomer
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. James S. Coleman
The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula. Branford Marsalis

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