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)
“Benjamin: Do you think Im proud of myself? Do you think Im proud of this?
Mrs. Robinson: I wouldnt know.
Benjamin: Well, Im not.
Mrs. Robinson: Youre not?
Benjamin: No, sir. Im not proud that I spend my time with a broken-down alcoholic.”
—Calder Willingham (19231995)
“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (19231985)
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