Measure Quotes
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The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.
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The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and bad music.
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Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.
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It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.
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I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
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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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The best things beyond their measure cloy.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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Sometimes the measure of a person can only be gleaned through his interactions with others.
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I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.
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Since a calorie is a measure of food energy, you may understandably assume that the more calories you consume, the more energy you'll have. I certainly believed that. Conventional sports nutrition books had me convinced of it. Yet, in practice, we see that clearly isn't the case.
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You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.
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When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
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You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.
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All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.
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When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.
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Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
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Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
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Standardized tests don't measure everything in a child's life in school. We should take a look at the total education and not just what they can put on a bubble sheet.
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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
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It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.
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We cannot measure, what it is we do not know to value.
