#maintained

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#fixed #i #maintained #means #now

The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#bad #bad stuff #best #better #comic

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#clear #first #improve #knowledge #longer

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democracy #in other words #level #maintained #other

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever. ↗

— Christo

#believe #could #definitely #dinosaurs #even

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#anxiety #conviction #disabilities #due #education

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work. ↗

— William Feather

#fundamental #hard #hard work #lack #maintained

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. ↗

— Albert Camus

#believe #friends #good #good opinion #honest

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#dimensions #distance #itself #largely #maintained

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#achievements #act #average #demands #down