"If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard."
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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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"I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard."
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"Labor is the true standard of value."
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"As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them."
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"Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them."
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"Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know."
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"Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard."
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"The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard."
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"Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest."
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"Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action."
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"What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all."
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"Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work."
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"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."
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"Lower your standards and relax as it is."
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"Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting."
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"When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody."
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"Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally."
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"I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore."
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"If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad."
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