#measured

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ↗

— John Betjeman

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That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems. ↗

— Paul Hawken

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I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

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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

#damn #executives #great #measured #men

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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Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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

— James Bryce

#book #carry #measured #worth #you

It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win. ↗

— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

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It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

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A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight. ↗

— Delia Smith

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