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  • The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
  • What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
  • Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
  • To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
  • What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
  • I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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  • Douglas Adams To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Tony Robbins A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Harold Loukes An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
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  • Karl Marx Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Anita Roddick At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Sinclair Lewis Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Raymond Chandler Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Burgess Owens I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Anita Roddick I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • George Eliot Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Barbara de Angelis Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • George Eliot My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • David Jenkins No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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