“ Measuring all costs in terms of energy is merely a religious exercise. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
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“ There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
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“ The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence. ”
- St. Therese of Lisieux- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses. ”
- Albert and Emily Vail- Copy
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“ In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve. ”
- Ecclesiastes- Copy
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“ There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer… ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- Copy
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“ We're hard at work trying to make parents better understand that they have total control today over what individual programs they allow into their homes. We want to show a closer rapport between the TV ratings system and the movie ratings system. ”
- Jack Valenti- Copy
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“ You're being told that the TV rating system is enough to protect children, that it's ultimately up to parents to do something about the problem caused by Hollywood. This to me is an amazing dodge. The ratings system has been an inconsistent, inaccurate, arbitrary and capricious mess. ”
- Brent Bozell- Copy
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“ If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance. ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- Copy
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“ We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal… ”
- Don Miguel Ruiz- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
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