Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.
Raul Grijalva
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Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
Lawrence Kohlberg
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I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
Carly Simon
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The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.
Varg Vikernes
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
Pat Paulsen
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If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
Irving Babbitt
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
Edmund Hillary
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But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil.
Jim Costa
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The big legislative updates that we need to compete in the 21st century and to raise living standards have been blocked by a reluctance to seek common ground.
John Delaney
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I support high academic standards. Period.
Jeb Bush
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I'm not an expert on journalistic standards. I want to be clear on that.
Michael Avenatti
WantExpertStandardsClear
It's time we update the laws so that online platforms are held to the same transparency standards as other companies that sell political advertisements.
Amy Klobuchar
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The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes in their classrooms.
Sonny Perdue
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The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
Rudolf Steiner
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I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.
Mira Nair
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Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu
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The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.
Brian J. White
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Conceivably, blockchains could rely on a number of standards above the Internet's existing standards to allow a smooth bridging from one layer to another. That would be a breakthrough.
William Mougayar
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Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!
Peter Asher
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I've been inconsistent by my standards, but I always set high goals for myself.
Tucker Halpern
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Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
Thomas E. Mann
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The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.
Noreena Hertz
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Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.
Mark McKinnon
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