#measure

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. ↗

— James Allen

#effort #efforts #human #human affairs #measure

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#depreciate #doing #down #effective #him

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. ↗

— Chester A. Arthur

#expenditure #extravagant #measured #money #people

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#black #country #future #great #great men

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. ↗

— George Bancroft

#brute force #civilization #common #common mind #degree

There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what's causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far is that it's us. ↗

— Peter Barnes

#although #anymore #causing #consensus #debate

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#because #between #conceivably #counting #discontinuity

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

#measured #must #race #true #true worth

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#nature #profit #right #state