Famous quotes containing the words standard, days and/or method:
“As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.”
—Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, ch. 1 (1991)
“I stand amid the dust o the mounded years
My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
—Francis Thompson (18591907)
“in the absence of feet, a method of conclusions;
a knowledge of principles,
in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn.”
—Marianne Moore (18871972)
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