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Letter "S" » standard
«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?»
«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 languages we once classified as ''exotic'' but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(
Vice President)
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Keywords:
businessmen,
classified,
classify,
decent,
Diplomats,
exotic,
futures,
Human dignity,
human voice,
languages,
mastery,
pronounce,
spell,
standard,
their own language,
very much
«My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.»
«I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility»
Author: Maya Angelou
(
Poet)
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About:
God,
Life,
Mankind
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Keywords:
affluent,
ascend,
ascends,
attributed,
attributing,
beings,
descends,
existence,
existence of God,
human beings,
interesting,
material,
meanest,
poorest,
responsibility,
scale,
scaled,
scaling,
standard,
style,
the existence of God
«Leadership is not magnetic personality/that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people /that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(
Educator,
Writer)
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Keywords:
as well,
building,
flatteries,
flattery,
glib,
higher,
influencing,
just as,
lifting,
limitations,
magnetic,
normal,
performance,
personality,
raising,
sights,
standard,
The Building,
tongue,
vision
«Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.»
«In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty /he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world /alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
alas,
all too,
believes,
bestowed,
bestowing,
cases,
filled,
forgets,
perfection,
select,
Selecting,
selects,
sets,
standard,
The Standard,
worships
«Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair»
«No gold-digging for me... I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.»
Author: Mae West
(
Actress)
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Keywords:
diamonds,
digging,
digging up,
digs,
dig in,
dig into,
dig out,
dig up,
dug,
gold,
gold standard,
someday,
standard,
Taking Off,
The Diamond,
The Diamonds
«I believe in the single standard for men and women.»