#standard

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#became #did #different #follow #i

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. ↗

— Hu Shih

#europe #even #experience #history #incapable

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off. ↗

— Peter Singer

#affluence #back #countries #developed #developed countries

Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#been #economy #i #i think #india

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work. ↗

— Andy Summers

#cutting edge #edge #i #like #my own

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#along #attitude #based #church #clear

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. ↗

— Learned Hand

#breach #cannot #cold #disconcerting #doubt

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common. ↗

— Juliette Gordon Low

#bring #close #common #communications #fact

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#economy #eliminate #fuel #fuel economy #fuel economy standards

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#means #often #our #own #prevailing