Measures Quotes
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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.
James Hutton
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I think over time the fiscal environment on cigarettes will become different, and the regulatory environment has to differentiate the products. If that is at the expense of cigarettes, so be it - it's not a problem for me. But we need some logical forum where we don't talk ideology but rather we talk about what can really accelerate the conversion. If you do display bans everywhere in the world on cigarettes but you can display IQOS, that's a differentiating measure for me. Then I'm more than willing to accept these measures because they are really conducive to make people switch.
Andre Calantzopoulos
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Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.
Anthony Trollope
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I think that we will have to initiate measures against Spain."
Charlie McCreevy
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If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.
Confucius
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Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.
George Gerbner
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This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
Heraclitus
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Iran has not provided any explanations that enable the agency to clarify the outstanding practical measures.
Yukiya Amano
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
Sigmund Freud
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I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
Alexandre Dumas
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I expect that these infringement proceedings will attract member states' awareness, that these things will be (fixed). I hope there will be measures taken by the member states.
Andris Piebalgs
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We will use an iron fist against any attempt to renew terrorist action. We will use drastic measures on all the roads, in all sensitive areas.
Ehud Olmert
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If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.
Bruno Le Maire
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Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.
Sigmar Gabriel
