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Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction. ↗

— Christopher Love

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I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice. ↗

— George Mason

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The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. ↗

— Junius

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There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew. ↗

— Demi Moore

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Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

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Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States. ↗

— Leon Panetta

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. ↗

— Tony Robbins

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Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament? ↗

— Robert Walpole

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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