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Letter "T" » The Standard
«Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity /namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.»
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
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Founder)
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Keywords:
absurdity,
contradiction,
erroneous,
erroneous belief,
evident,
existent,
faculties,
namely,
Pleasure and Pain,
self evident,
standard,
substance,
supposition,
The Standard,
unreal,
untrue
«Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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Keywords:
debate,
discussing,
eighteen,
finite,
Finite number,
infinite number,
nonsense,
pin,
theologian,
theologians,
The Standard
«As society advances the standard of poverty rises»
«Another hand thy sword shall wield,Another hand the standard wave,Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealedThe blast of triumph o'er thy grave.»
«And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.»
«And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.»
«And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.»
«And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.»
«And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy - an endless procession of adolescents who have been taught everything save that which is true, and outfitted with every trick save those that are socially useful»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(
Critic,
Journalist)
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About:
Teenage
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Keywords:
adolescents,
outfits,
outfitted,
pedagogy,
procession,
processions,
schoolhouse,
Schoolhouses,
socially,
The Standard,
trick,
vomited,
vomiting,
vomit up
«How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(
Dramatist,
Editor,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bathtub,
cashier,
cashiers,
closing,
colleague,
incomprehensibility,
irregularly,
pipe,
rival,
shaped,
the good old days,
The Standard,
unfavorably,
waste paper,
waste pipe