Quotes with measure

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  • Alan Greenspan The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Ann Landers The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • John Lyly The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
    John Lyly
    English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier (1553 - 1606)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Martin Luther King The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • V.A. Rosewarne The universe is so vast and so ageless that the life of one man can only be justified by the measure of his sacrifice.
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  • Bill James There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • H.G. Wells There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Betty Friedan There needs to be bolder thinking,... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • A. E. Housman They say my verse is sad: no wonder.
    Its narrow measure spans
    Rue for eternity, and sorrow
    Not mine, but man's.

    This is for all ill-treated fellows
    Unborn and unbegot,
    For them to read when they're in trouble
    And I am not.
    More Poems (1936)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Francis Bacon Time is the measure of business.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bobby Ghosh To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
    Bobby Ghosh
    Indian-born American journalist and commentator
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  • Wilma Scott To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine.
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  • Malcolm Stevenson Forbes To measure the man, measure his heart.
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  • Ban Ki-moon To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Felix E. Schelling True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.
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  • Arthur Laffer We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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