Measure Quotes
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
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God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART.
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Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.
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If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
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Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
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. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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You can't measure love, it has no start it has no end.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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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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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
