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Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or called:

“An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for a strict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“Men in history, men in the world of to-day are bugs, are spawn, and are called “the mass” and “the herd.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)