“ Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. ”
- Jean Giraudoux- Copy
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“ If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. ”
- Frederick E. Crane- Copy
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“ The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. ”
- Irwin Edman- Copy
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“ In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. ”
- Alex Grey- Copy
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“ Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words… ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
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“ Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today… ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ Psychobabble is… a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems. ”
- Richard D. Rosen- Copy
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