Quotes about criterion
criterion looking nature pass poem test
M. H. Abrams The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
criterion infallible judgments success vulgar wisdom
Edmund Burke The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success
criterion generous good ill mental mentally people rarely
Karl Menninger Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
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Barack Obama We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
criterion fleeting human life literary mean romantic sensation time value waste whether
Sebastian Faulks I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.
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Greg Graffin There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power.
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Dick Cheney The governor has given me some criterion in terms of the kind of individual we're looking for, ... We've put together a very detailed questionnaire to gather info on each and every candidate, including public records, financial records, health records -- all of those kinds of things that you look at.