Famous quotes containing the words standard, time and/or zone:
“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)
“With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsiveor even boring.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (19231985)
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