- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Measure Quotes
On measuring value, character, and courage.
These Life quotes explore measure in different senses, from the scientific idea of measuring energy and temperature to the more personal measure of courage, character, and what someone does with what they have.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
- Endure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.
- Behavioural
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
- Facile
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.
- Profit
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes. And for all those years, the company has relied on the standard marketing package for its sector: earnest, information-crammed manuals and brochures.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
- Estimation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.
- Nov 07, 2020