Measure Quotes
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We had taken the cups for coffee out of the building as a cost-saving measure, but left the coffee. Somebody thought it was symbolic to do this.
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I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
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IQ is thought to be a measure which expresses the relative brightness or intelligence of any given individual.
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A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.
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There is no more important measure of a people than how carefully and faithfully they attend to the wellbeing of their children. The CJC has it right. True justice begins today with the children, or there is no hope of justice tomorrow for the world.
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To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
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As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
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The measure of her bitterness was the measure of her failure.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.
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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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If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.
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The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
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My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
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The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.
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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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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
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When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that is typically served for a term of years, 10 years, to be precise.
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In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards his own will, so much does he brings harm to himself.
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The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.
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I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.
