#measured

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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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

#american #american dream #best #class #cultural

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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Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? ↗

— Jessamyn West

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Love is space and time measured by the heart. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. ↗

— Herbert Read

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I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. ↗

— Anita Roddick

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