#standards

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. ↗

— James Robinson

#bravery #courage #doing #escaping #greatness

People mistake their limitations for high standards. ↗

— Jean Toomer

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Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation. ↗

— George P. Baker

#come #dramatists #generation #into #judging

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#different #divorced #forever #gets #going

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#get #how #i #know #me

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#constant #field #higher #higher standard #industry

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#administration #assurance #been #given #goals

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