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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?


Jessamyn West


#her #man #measured #my soul #my time

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.


Origen


#any #being #could #degree #every

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.


Camille Paglia


#economic #economic policies #failure #fear #gate

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.


James Cash Penney


#buying #extent #measured #public #serve

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.


Charles Francis Richter


#compare #correction #distance #earthquakes #i

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.


Charles Francis Richter


#astronomical #astronomy #being #brightness #depending

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.


Anita Roddick


#award #been #body #body shop #created

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.


Anita Roddick


#during #enormously #everything #i #measured

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.


Thomas Jefferson


#hour #measured #speeches #will

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.


Adam Johnson


#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman