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"Why should we be in such desperate hast to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"desperate affairs require desperate remedies." »Horatio Nelson
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
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"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure." »George Melton
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"If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining." »Walter Lippmann
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"To measure the man, measure his heart." »Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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"Tempt not a desperate man." »Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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"It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." »Henry David Thoreau
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"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly." »Richard Adams, _Watership Down_
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"My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest." »Titus Livius
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"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime." »Erich Fromm
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"There is not half so much danger in the desperate sword of a known foe as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended friend." »R Chamberlain
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"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance." »Thomas Jefferson
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""My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."" »G. K. Chesterton
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"My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress." »Quentin Crisp
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"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen." »Alice Walker
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"The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility." »Eric Hoffer
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"There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer." »Mark Twain
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"Come not within the measure of my wrath." »William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4
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"The measure of a man is what he does with power." »Pittacus
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"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives." »Robert South
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"There is measure in all things." »Horace
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"Man is the measure of all things." »Protagoras
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"The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power." »Ninon de Lenclos
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"measure your life in love." »Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent
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