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The Standard
«I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.»
Author: Ludwig Feuerbach
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abstains, brawl, brawling, formally, founder, founders, i.e., I E, mode, ostentation, The Philosopher, The Standard
«It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?»
Author: Dwight L. Moody
(Evangelist)
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capable, christ, devil, standard, the Devil, The Devil You Know, The Standard
«Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.»
Author: W. C. Fields
(Actor, Comic)
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impress, impresses, impressing, keep up, kept woman, standard, The Standard
«Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.»
«Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.»
«In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.»
Author: Bible
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The Standard
«On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.»
«In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty /he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world /alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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alas, all too, believes, bestowed, bestowing, cases, filled, forgets, perfection, select, Selecting, selects, sets, standard, The Standard, worships