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Tag Name "Measure" (1471)

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Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.
Alan Brennert
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I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.
William Shakespeare
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The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.
Alain de Benoist
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Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt
Al-Nawawi
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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
Al Stewart
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So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Carl Jung
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Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.
William Wilberforce
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Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
William Wilberforce
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Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.
William Wordsworth
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Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
William Wycherley
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God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.
Paul Harvey
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It's a brutal regime, in the Assad regime, that is willing to take any measure, no matter how immoral or war criminal acts, to persecute its goals.
Derek Chollet
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In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The mind of man is this world's true dimension and knowledge is the measure of the mind.
Sir Fulke Greville
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When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.
Temple Grandin
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Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.
John L. Phillips
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
Adrienne Rich
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One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
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The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.
Adolf Hitler
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Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.
Winston Churchill
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Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.
Addison Webster Moore
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The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.
Yehudi Menuhin
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Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
Camille Desmoulins
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