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Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

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Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

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Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei. ↗

— Walther Bothe

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I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

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The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back. ↗

— Jerry Moran

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Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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