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Imagine going through years of your life with the gut feeling that none of it really matters yet, that it will start at some point in the future, and that the present doesn't really count. Does this feeling seem familiar? Have you ever told yourself ...

She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life,” Standard said. “Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.

Drive

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

Doom Of Youth

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.

The Education of Henry Adams

His voice as smooth as silk, Grant started into his standard crowd-pleaser: Sinatra’s 'My Kind of Town.

Bad Behavior

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

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.

Martin Filler

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

Robert Gottlieb

There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated.

44 Days of Leadership

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

Rumors

In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

Stumbling on Happiness

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

Manners That Matter for Moms

Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.

Orthodoxy

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

Pensées

I will no longer be judged by the standards of others. I will judge myself. I will not live by someone else's rules. I will make my own.

Tarnish

You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.

Bob Beauprez

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

Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting people concentrate on what they do best and trade with others who specialize in other things.

Virginia Postrel

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Down and Out in Paris and London

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

The Art of War