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• Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new ‘niggers’ are gays. It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.

  Bayard Rustin

  Gay, Law, People

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• The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

  Jose Bergamin

  God, Ironic, Religion

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• If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.

  Charles Kelley

  Song, Years, Careers

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• When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion, on many different issues, and you can't let your own faith be the barometer.

  Gregory D. Brenneman

  Running, Views, Issues

  "Online Extra: Burger King's Brenneman: 'Why Not?'". Interview with Brian Grow, www.bloomberg.com. November 8, 2004.

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• I can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public opinion.

  Cory Bernardi

  Views, Public Opinion, Share

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I had known, number one, that there would never be any role for me in the leadership capacity with SCLC. Why? First, I'm a woman. Also, I'm not a minister. And second, I am a person that feels that I have to maintain some degree of personal integrity and be my own barometer of what is important and what is not.

  Ella Baker

  Integrity, Numbers, Important

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• The way we use our money is a barometer of our present spiritual condition. Our neglect of the poor illustrates much about where our hearts lie. But even more than that, the way we use our money is an indicator of our eternal destination. The mark of Christ followers is that their hearts are in heaven and their treasures are spent there

  David Platt

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

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• What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.

  Ian Astbury

  Spiritual, Artist, Rocks

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• When there's something that impacts a family member or friend, that is difficult for them, you want to do what you can to help. Sometimes you can't do anything and it makes you feel like you're helpless, so those emotions cross a big barometer, but they're a big, broad stroke when it comes to someone who you care about. If you have compassion in your heart, you just care.

  Queen Latifah

  Heart, Compassion, Impact

  "Queen Latifah, Neil Meron, and Craig Zadan Talk STEEL MAGNOLIAS and How the Lifetime Version Is Different from the Original". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2012.

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• It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects

  Martha Graham

  Lying, Order, Years

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• Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

  Jared Kushner

  Age, Persons, Convenient

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• The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

  John Buchan

  Spiritual, Book, Well Being

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• The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he is more deeply immersed in his culture and more interested in its meanings.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  Artist, Culture, Nuance

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• A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

  Wayne Dyer

  Happy Life, Each Day, Moments

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Eminem has talent, and his talent is the thing that influences many young people who would have never gone anywhere near rap. White kids in different parts of the world use him as a barometer and the standard to live up to. In some ways, Eminem is an artist who has ushered in a new movement.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Kids, Artist

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

  Lisa Alther

  Men, Air, Life Is

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• My body and its condition are a barometer that is always trying to tell me which direction to go for my maximum creativity, health and fulfillment. And, because I'm human, I get off track now and again but I can always get back on.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Creativity, Health

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• My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

  Peter Higgs

  School, Wonder, Physics

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• If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

  Steve Harvey

  Believe, Moral, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Risk, Important, Use

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• I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one.

  Fred Nicole

  Thinking, Climbing, Doubt

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• If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, Cutting

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• Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed out you are. Judging others is simply the flip side of judging yourself.

  Harriet Lerner

  Judging Yourself, Mind, Stressed

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Oct 26, 2014

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• Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

  Ayn Rand

  May, Way, Eras

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.57, Penguin

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• He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Powerful, Moving, Men

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