#standards

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

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The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#ethical #hence #judgment #means #norms

Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements. ↗

— Asa Hutchinson

#direction #firstly #international #move #national standards

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#excellence #high #high standards #look #standards

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

#another #i #i am #live #responsible

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#another #any #because #come #could

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#concerned #consequence #convertible #excellence #into

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#another #beings #care #convention #deeds

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#embracing #expect #fully #join #next