Quotes with measuring

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  • Ian Mcewan By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State's crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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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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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Erickson Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Bernard Malamud Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Aaron C. Brown There's no way to know how good a player you are except by measuring against others.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 3
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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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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  • Jean Dubuffet What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Pablo Picasso Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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