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Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity
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humor
pathos
standards
young-people
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Arthur Nersesian |
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...the best is a matter of standards--and I set my own standards.
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howard-roark
standards
the-fountainhead
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Ayn Rand |
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"Failure to put the relationship on a slower timetable may result in an act that was never intended in the first place. Another important principle is to avoid the circumstances where compromise is likely. A girl who wants to preserve her virginity should not find herself in a house or dorm room alone with someone to whom she is attracted. Nor should she single-date with someone she has reason not to trust. A guy who wants to be moral should stay away from the girl he knows would go to bed with him. Remember the words of Solomon to his son, "Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house" (Proverbs 5:8). I know this advice sounds very narrow in a day when virginity is mocked and chastity is considered old-fashioned. But I don't apologize for it. The Scriptures are eternal, and God's standards of right and wrong do not change with the whims of culture. He will honor and help those who are trying to follow His commandments. In fact, the apostle Paul said, "He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear" (1Corinthians 10:13). Hold that promise and continue to use your head. You'll be glad you did."
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act
advice
alone
and
apostle
are
attracted
avoid
away
be
bear
bed
beyond
can
change
chastity
circumstances
commandments
compromise
considered
continue
culture
day
did
do
door
eternal
failure
first
follow
girl
glad
go
god-s
guy
he
head
help
her
him
hold
honor
house
important
intended
is
keep
knows
let
likely
may
mocked
moral
narrow
near
never
not
old-fashioned
path
paul
place
preserve
principle
proberbs
promise
reason
relationship
remeber
result
right
scriptures
she
should
single-date
slower
solomon
someone
son
sounds
standards
stay
tempted
those
to
trust
trying
use
very
virginity
wants
what-you
whims
who
whom
will
with
words
would
wrong
you
you-ll
your
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James C. Dobson |
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The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.
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conventionality
quality
repetitiveness
standards
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Pauline Kael |
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...I realized that my father, of all these men, was the most obstinate, helplessly bonded to his better instincts and their excessive demands. I only then understood that he had quit his job not merely because he was fearful of what awaited us down the line should we agree like the others to be relocated, but because, for better or worse, when he was bullied by superior forces that he deemed corrupt it was his nature not to yield--in this instance, to resist either running away to Canada, as my mother urged our doing, or bowing to a government directive that was patently unjust. There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty And Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play.
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fair-play
fairness
instincts
morals
mores
obstinacy
standards
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Philip Roth |
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A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded tyranny. When society reaches this stage, and there is no standard of right and wrong outside of the individual himself, then the individual is defenseless against the onslaught of cruder and more violent men who proclaim their own subjective sense of values. Once my idea of morality is just as good as your idea of morality, then the morality that is going to prevail is the morality that is stronger.
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morality
objective-truth
standards
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Fulton J. Sheen |
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To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.
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education
morals
standards
values
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G.K. Chesterton |
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, yeah, it was, like, seminal, but tame by today's standards. Violet, for instance, did not get her intestines ripped out. There wasn't any torture, nobody's liver got fried in a pan, there wasn't any gang rape. So what's the fun of that?
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standards
torture
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Margaret Atwood |
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It was one of the only times in my teaching career that I got angry and showed it in class. I was young and inexperienced, and I thought certain standards were respected and understood.
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inexperience
respect
standards
teaching
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