#measure

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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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier. ↗

— Bode Miller

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First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

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I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value. ↗

— Demi Moore

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There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

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Desperate affairs require desperate measures. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured. ↗

— Origen

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Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium. ↗

— Doug Ose

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