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I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone. – Gale Brook Burket
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. – Michael Korda
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values. – Norman Thomas
Paranoia is a finer scale of reality. – Michael W. Moore
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. – Plutarch
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. – Sir Henry Taylor
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. – Arthur C. Clarke
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. – Josh Billings
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain. – David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number. – Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. – Norman Thomas
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song – John Burroughs
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song! – John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions. – R Chamberlain

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