Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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To measure the man, measure his heart.
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To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.
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Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.
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The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.
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I hope so. We've got a measure in front of us that we have to step up to and try to regain some kind of composure and some kind of home-court advantage.
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Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.
