#standard

One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#creates #discomfort #entire #facing #fundamental

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#hold #i #plead #standards #urge

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#affections #difficult #full #grateful #live

I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#cap #deregulation #eliminate #equity #global

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. ↗

— Kanye West

#fits #happiness #i #ideas #me

In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth. ↗

— John Olver

#energy #equates #everyone #globalization #high

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. ↗

— Martha Beck

#arbitrary #beauty #beliefs #body #exists

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#community #down #first #foremost #handed

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

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back. ↗

— Adam Clymer

#casually #easy #easy way #far #gone