Quotes with measure

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  • H.G. Wells Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • John Wooden Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Andy Warhol Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Germaine Greer Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • John Lennon God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Allen Tate I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • George S. Patton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Barry Munro I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of success.
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  • Margaret Mead I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
    Margret Mead: Some personal views (1979) p. 249
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Angela Davis I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • William T. Sherman I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • Abraham Cahan If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
    The Rise of David Levinsky
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Robert South If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Bing Gordon If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Carl Schurz If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • James Allen In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Alberto Giacometti In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Thomas Hobbes In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Alfred Adler It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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