#measurement

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#created #eternity #first #follow #genius

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#creed #free #free market #market #measurement

I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan. ↗

— Jeanne Shaheen

#congress #determine #get #going #house

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them? ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#everyone #history #how #i #knows

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#about #financial #i #measurement #success

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. ↗

— Erica Jong

#because #being #compared #detested #gossip

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#any #election #i #mandate #measurement

In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#approximately #been #carry #constants #estimated

I can taste one sugar crystal, just like I can feel one Cupid (the metric unit of measurement for love).
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #measurement #metric-unit #sugar #taste

It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

#atmosphere #before #consist #cosmic #cosmic rays