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Tag Name "Measure" (1477)

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The flow of information through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this flow.
Anatol Rapoport
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The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving, and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
W. T. Purkiser
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The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.
Wade Davis
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The way people behave towards each other is a measure of their value as human beings.
Lynne Truss
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The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong.
Han Fei
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We must teach our children that the real measure of their success in life is how much they'd be worth if they had absolutely nothing.
Walt Mueller
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Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities. Always stand proud in who you are!
Margaret Spellings
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All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
Walter Annenberg
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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
Walter Besant
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When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.
Walter Cronkite
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In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.
Amby Burfoot
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Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.
Ambrose Bierce
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The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
Walter Lord
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Comparing yourself to the people like you, comparing yourself to the people who aren't like you, looking at how many records you've sold, looking at the venue size you're selling out. None of that can even remotely measure how happy you are.
Amanda Palmer
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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
Warren Buffett
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We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.
Warren G. Bennis
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The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.
Alma Katsu
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Others can measure their visions by what we see.
Allen Ginsberg
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What do warriors do? They are in competition with everyone else. They measure their success and their value on the basis of who they are better than, how much they get, and so on. So, this is the time in your adult life when your primary emphasis is on goal setting, on getting someplace else, and on defeating other people.
Wayne Dyer
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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
Wendell Berry
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We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
Wendell Berry
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