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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
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Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.
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I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced.
Grunch of Giants (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
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I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.
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I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
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I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
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If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.
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If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.
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In high school in the early Sixties, I dreamed of intellectual work by women that would match the highest male standards and set men on their ear. A lot of women have done a lot of academic work since then, but most of them fall short of that standard.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
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 wealth.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids grace. I am constantly learning to be patient with them, understanding that they won't do everything right all the time, while still holding them to a high standard, as their heavenly father does.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
Monetary Reform (1924) , p. 172 -
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
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Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
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Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.
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My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
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