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#measure

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.


Benjamin Franklin


#best #business #carrying #considering #execution

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.


Charles Lamb


#chosen #finds #good #likes #man

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.


Christopher Lasch


#become #coercion #irreducible #justice #love

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.


Peter Latham


#balance #between #exactly #fortunate #himself

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.


John Lennon


#god #measure #our #pain #which

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.


James Lovelock


#could #country #every #ii #just

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.


Gabriel Marcel


#exact #extent #measures #method #object

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.


Orison Swett Marden


#accomplish #against #courage #encountered #maintained

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.


Orison Swett Marden


#did #failures #get #him #his

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.


Karl Marx


#anything #changes #exactly #fair #feminine






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