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• King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Kings, Philosophical, Men

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• What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

  Peter De Vries

  Bears

  Peter De Vries (1982). “Forever panting”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.

  Bernard of Chartres

  Science, Sight, Progress

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• Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Eye, Men, Alphabet

  "What Skyscrapers Tell Us ... About Us" by Jonathan Merritt, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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• But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Writing, Winning, Ill Health

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Introduction, Section 4,

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• Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beauty, Beautiful, Should Have

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• Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.20

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• I find many women are intimidated by "career women"! Bottom line: snap judgments about what you think others' perceptions might be about you, personally or professionally, can be more dangerous or damaging to you than those who are uncomfortable with your stature or your smarts. If you are smart and focused on your career, remind yourself that no one can ever take away your drive and your passion.

  Jenna Lee

  Smart, Passion, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I spent my whole life being very shy and introverted and I kind of found my release and therapy in the gym. I became this big, menacing physical stature of a man but internally I'm still kind of insecure. Warm, fuzzy and gooey.

  Dave Bautista

  Insecure, Men, Fuzzy

  Tommy2 Interview, tommy2.net. December 10, 2014.

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• The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Differences, Two

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• I don't think every actress in Bollywood has been associated with Lux. A select few actresses, who they felt suited the brand right (have been associated with it) and they all have been actresses of great stature with wonderful careers and some wonderful work. I am very honoured to join the group of people who have been with Lux over the years.

  Katrina Kaif

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work.

  Martin Amis

  People, Tragedy, Principles

  1995 Explaining why only comedy can reflect contemporary reality. Quoted in an interview in The Scotsman, 7 Apr.

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• In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Soul, Needs

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• A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Marriage, Blessing, Wife

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• Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects humor as a contaminating element wherever found. America is a nation of comics and comedians; nevertheless, humor has no stature and is accepted only after the death of the perpetrator.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Spiritual, Men

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• What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Art, Age, Painting

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.126, Vintage

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• People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to dissenting beliefs in small, insidious steps. They begin by saying, 'We're the righteous, and we'll tolerate those others.' And as the toleration diminishes over time, the inevitable harms are overlooked. It is for that reason that James Madison wisely wrote that 'it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties'.

  Michael Newdow

  People, One Day, Liberty

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• Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Musician, Doe

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• And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

  George Meredith

  Soul, Oblivion, Drink

  George Meredith (1912). “Poems of George Meredith”, p.227, Library of Alexandria

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• ...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Death, Suicide, Destiny

  1953 Tribute, Indian Parliament, 9 Mar.

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• Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.

  Kobe Bryant

  Children, Wrestling, Greatness

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• Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Children, Parenting

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows, and to see how much it has grown, you will see nothing at all. But tend it at all times, prune the runners and keep it free of beetles and worms, and all in good time-it will come into its growth. It is the same with man: all that is necessary is for him to overcome his obstacles, and he will thrive and grow. But it is not right to examine him hour after hour to see how much has already been added to his stature.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Tree, After Hours

  Martin Buber (2002). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.59, Psychology Press

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• One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Eye, Self, Average

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• Arthur, with his keen blue eyes and hair of burnished gold, his ready smile and guileless countenance. Wide and heavy of shoulder, long of limb, he towers above other men and, though he does not yet know the power of his stature, he is aware that smaller men become uneasy near him. He is handsomely knit in all; fair to look upon.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Eye, Men, Hair

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