#measured

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. ↗

— King Hussein I

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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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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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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

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Love is space and time measured by the heart. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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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

#award #been #body #body shop #created

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers. ↗

— Anita Roddick

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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

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#hour #measured #speeches #will

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

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