- Failure
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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 May 30, 2021
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
- Goodwill
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point. It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is the measure of all things.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had taken the cups for coffee out of the building as a cost-saving measure, but left the coffee. Somebody thought it was symbolic to do this.
- Nov 07, 2020
Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.
- Defeated
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also has to know what the risk taken by other banks in the system happens to be at any particular moment.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020