Cumulative Residual Standard

Famous quotes containing the words cumulative, residual and/or standard:

    “Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.”
    —Bill Cosby (20th century)

    “The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. Their truth is instantly translated; its literal monument alone remains.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)