#standard

I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work. ↗

— Talib Kweli

#challenge #i #i believe #looking #offered

The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#fail #financial #financial markets #global #good

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#ability #away #carving #certain #doing

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#events #narrative #national #national standards #past

I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#deployed #enhanced #exacting #i #i do

We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#been #cannot #congress #court #determining

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world. ↗

— Mira Nair

#dreamed #even #grew #i #i always

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#correct #cuts #down #educational #genius

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking. ↗

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#certain #during #established #i #must

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#emancipation #enabled #ended #hereditary #living