#measure

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands. ↗

— Robert Charles Winthrop

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We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on. ↗

— Clay Aiken

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view. ↗

— Michael Arad

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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

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I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

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