#measure

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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


#commitment #controlled #derive #economy #genuinely

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