Measure Quotes
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You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
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My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.
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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.
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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.
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The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
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You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success. . . . I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.
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A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
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As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.
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But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.
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In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.
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You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
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A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.
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You will never have to talk religion to anyone; men will see it talking in your life! You will radiate a positive influence at all times, which will in turn bring you happiness and health in good measure.
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A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
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A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.
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“Be not grieved above the measure for thy deceased loved ones. They are not dead, but have only finished the journey which it is necessary for every one of us to take. We ourselves must go to that great place of reception in which they are all of them assembled, and in this general rendezvous of mankind, live together in another state of being.”
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She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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“Put in the starkest terms, there is no measure by which we can adequately quantify the devastation a mass nuclear attack would have on our civilization. My”
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One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.
