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  • It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
  • These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
  • Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.
  • I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
  • The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
  • The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Michael Korda Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur 'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Thomas Malthus A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
    Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind.... Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bill Gates Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
    "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Gates Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in, and nobody knew how they were going to stabilize the project. We swore to ourselves that we would do better.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Karl Marx Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Baba Kalyani From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence - this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Burnie Burns I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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