"One of the tenets that we hold to most dearly is that, you know, it is limited, " Payne explained.
We want to hold ourselves to the same standards we hold others to.
While that will make the task of ending denial harder, it also means what's at risk is, quite simply, everything we hold to be important.
Last weekend I was in central Ohio for the annual charity race we hold to raise cancer-research money in memory of my late friend Jack Roth.
Instead of relying on a hodgepodge of pseudo-significant (or pseudo-scientific) results, we should have the discipline to recognize the ones we hold to be true, and recognize that the rest are currently assumptions we will have to later revisit.
In short, the battles that have been waged in the last week will ultimately help our wider connected culture both expose and figure out the principles that we hold to be true and valid, especially those concerning the role of women.
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When we hold ourselves to a higher standard in our own education on important matters, we can hold our leaders to a higher standard, and maybe they will begin to deliver.
But even as we continue to hold BP accountable, we also need to hold Washington accountable.
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If we want to hold on to these we must stand together against the forces which threaten our identities.
Massive stock shortages don't seem to be an issue (yet), but patience is not a virtue we hold dear to our hearts, so we really can't blame these people.
Certainly, we all want to see that continue, but we want to hold them to it.
And while we hold others to account, we will meet our own obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and strive for a world without nuclear weapons.
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We just have to make sure that we figure out what works, and we hold ourselves to those high standards.
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When there were storms we had to hold on to the canvas opening to keep the wind out.
And we want to hold everyone to the letter of the law and make sure that our city is as safe as possible.
Armstrong: We have to hold ourselves to growth.
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We do not want to sleepwalk into a cyber-Katrina, but neither do we want to hold our policy-making hostage to the rhetorical ploys of better-informed government contractors.
They govern everything from the hospitals we were born in, to the homes we grew up in, to the schools we attend, to the jobs we hold.
Not only should we hold them to a higher level of accountability, but they should want us to.
We hold on to the projects that have given our lives shape, even at the cost of losing all we care for.
And the longer our winning streak goes on, the more tightly we hold on to the beliefs and assumptions that originally contributed to our success.
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Unless and until leaders lead, and we hold ourselves to a higher standard, more regulations will close this barn door, but not prevent a future calamity.
It is the mirror that we hold up to the planet in our scientific search for the answer to the ancient question, 'Are we alone?
While these last two changes won't affect as many of us, they reinforce the notion that Verizon would really prefer that we hold on to the gear we've got.
"We hold ourselves to a very rigorous standard of punctuality, " says Mark Dunkerley, Hawaiian Airlines' president and chief executive, adding that the airline considers a flight "late" if it arrives even one minute behind schedule.
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