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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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"Come not within the measure of my wrath." »William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene 4
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"Man is the measure of all things." »Protagoras
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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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"The measure of a man is what he does with power." »Pittacus
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"There is measure in all things." »Horace
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"The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power." »Ninon de Lenclos
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"Intense love does not measure, it just gives." »Mother Teresa
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune." »Plutarch
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"measure your life in love." »Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent
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"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
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"measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." »Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"You can often measure a person by the size of his dream." »Dr. Robert Schuller
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"I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential." »Shirley Chisholm
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"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"If your only measure of value is color, then you shall never appreciate the transparence of diamonds." »Ameer Sadet Mahdy
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"Until you can measure something and express it in numbers, you have only the begining of understanding." »Lord Kelvin
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"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire." »Arab Proverb
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"It is not a loss of freedom. It's a measure to protect it. on gun control" »James Brady
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"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." »Thomas B. Macaulay
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." »Ann Landers
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"The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego." »Albert Einstein
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"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality." »George Santayana
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"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 Mere Latham
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"If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." »J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." »J. Krishnamurti
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