#measure

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. ↗

— Ray Dalio

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The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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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 Latham

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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

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If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery. ↗

— Justin Long

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The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

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Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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