Measures Quotes
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Desperate times breed desperate measures.
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A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.
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For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.
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We have not yet reached any definitive view on the precise measures we would propose to remedy this situation."
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I’m not afraid of anything but I’m definitely partial to certain things like protecting myself, taking the necessary measures to make sure that the protection is in place.
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We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.
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Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
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...absolutely no alert measures ... are necessary at this time or contemplated.
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Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.
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Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.
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I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.
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If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war.
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This spirit of cooperation will, I hope, lead to many more measures that will benefit all in the region.
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Halfway measures are not enough.
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Divestment measures would improve overall banking sector health.
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Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
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In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.
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They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.
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Behavior must also be adequately assessed under appropriate circumstances. Ill-defined global measures of perceived self-efficacy or defective assessments of performance will yield discordances. Disparities will also arise when efficacy is judged for performances in actual situations but performance is measured in simulated situations that are easier to deal with than the actualities
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What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that by which alone it had existence; and as the natural course of time, which to us seems infinite, cannot be bounded by any operation that may have an end, the progress of things upon this globe, that is, the course of nature, cannot be limited by time, which must proceed in a continual succession.
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Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
