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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about confusion

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about criticism

You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew

Quote by Stephen Crane about opinion, contentment, god

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about self-control, man

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about leadership, question, faith, light, people

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about revolution

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about modesty

I had these ideas of interpretation that went way beyond the standard Conservatoire limits. So I was at war with my piano teachers.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about limits, teachers, war

My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about common sense, sense

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.

Quote by Whitney Houston about advertising, integrity, magic, people, contentment

A person without values or standards can never be a hypocrite.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about man, people

The documented interfaces between standard software modules will have undocumented quirks.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Quote by Ken Olsen about things

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those...

Quote by Evan Parker about air, education, force, police, day, people

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Quote by Theodore Parker about society, poverty

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

Quote by Li Peng about country, economy, being, world, people

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

Quote by Karl Jaspers about philosophy, essential, history

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightement at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken about education, originality, public