#measure

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd. ↗

— James Purefoy

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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success. ↗

— Rick Renzi

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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ↗

— James Bryce

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In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

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The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time. ↗

— Yann Martel

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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public. ↗

— Lance Ito

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. ↗

— Gerald Jampolsky

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Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment. ↗

— Curtis Joseph

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