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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

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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. ↗

— Karl Marx

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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. ↗

— Karl Marx

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

— James Cash Penney

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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? ↗

— Dennis Prager

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The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

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