Magnitude Quotes - Page 6

Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

John Adams

Liberty, Revolution, Unexpected

John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.391

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Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

John Adams

Evil, Slavery, Colossal

John Adams (1997). “Rivoluzioni e Costituzioni”, p.37, Guida Editori

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The value of all service lies in the spirit in which you serve and not in the importance or magnitude of the service. Even the lowliest task or deed is made holy, joyous, and prosperous when it is filled with love.

Charles Fillmore

Lying, Helping Others, Tasks

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We have volcanoes also in our immediate neighborhood. I wish we didn't have to travel that far. Probably the kind of magnitude and awesome raw power of them is very fascinating, and of course it's very cinematic.

Werner Herzog

Volcanoes, Wish, Kind

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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... on principle, it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitudes alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which decides what we can observe.

Albert Einstein

Reality, Opposites, Trying

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The question before the United States is whether the magnitude of its power will eclipse the light by which it was founded, or whether it will use its power to serve greater light. Does it seek mastery to dominate or mastery to serve?

Jim Garrison

Light, United States, Doe

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No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.

Burt Rutan

Order, Orbit, Affordable

Source: bigthink.com

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God has given us a vision to see the body of Christ move from being an inactive audience to a Spirit-filled army. . . God is about to unloose a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit of an unprecedented magnitude. . . He is looking for individuals who will be 'dread champions' for his cause.

John Wimber

Powerful, Moving, Army

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Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Book, Philosophical, Talking

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One of the drivers of heroin has been the misuse of pain medication. If we're gonna deal with heroin and heroin use in the United States, we really have to focus on reducing the magnitude of the prescription drug use issue.

Michael Botticelli

Pain, Drug Use, Issues

Source: www.cbsnews.com

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It was a realization for me when Oprah was talking about New Moon. I was like, "Oh, my god, she's watched a movie that I've been in!" People were like, "It just kicked in for you?," but it's just work for me. The idea that somebody that I've admired for so long had seen something that I'd done was when I understood the magnitude of it.

Tinsel Korey

Moon, Talking, Ideas

Source: collider.com

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Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

John P. Kotter

Underestimate, Force, Status Quo

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H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

Maxwell Bodenheim

Suffering, Disease, Hallucinations

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My guys look for me to step up in that magnitude and I take the challenge every time. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but you've got to have a guy that will take those shots and deal with the consequences.

Chauncey Billups

Winning, Guy, Challenges

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We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them.

Hugh Hendry

Class, Profound, Political

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Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

Susan Meissner

Choices

Susan Meissner (2010). “The Shape of Mercy: A Novel”, p.56, WaterBrook

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I just want you to be motivated by the magnitude of the opportunity.

Mark V. Hurd

Opportunity, Want, Motivated

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No one can sense his own weakness is at least a small temptation is not allowed to afflict either his body or his soul. Then, comparing his weakness to the help of God, a man comes to know its magnitude. But whoever does not know that he needs God's help, let him make many prayers. Insofar as he multiplies them, in that measure will he be humbled.

Isaac of Nineveh

Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort

Albert Bandura

People, Effort, Littles

Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The magnitude of this change is in the order of religious conversion or of spiritual rebirth rather than of treaty processes or even of inter-cultural understanding. Simply to recognize the basic nature and dimension of the issues we face is already an advance.

Thomas Berry

Spiritual, Religious, Peace

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In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no advance from that state in which it came to us from Euclid.
As belonging to these imperfections, I consider the obscurity in the fundamental concepts of the geometrical magnitudes and in the manner and method of representing the measuring of these magnitudes, and finally the momentous gap in the theory of parallels, to fill which all efforts of mathematicians have so far been in vain.

Nikolai Lobachevsky

Imperfection, Effort, Transition

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Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.

John Herschel

Next, Astronomy, Treats

Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1851). “Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”, p.287

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The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently that as the parties to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.

James Madison

Party, Nullification, May

James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.517

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Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

James Clerk Maxwell

Taken, May, Influence

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I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else ... was increate and eternal. And as for the place of God before the world created, the finite wisdom of mortal men hath no perception of it; neither can it limit the seat of infinite power, no more than infinite power itself can be limited; for his place is in himself, whom no magnitude else can contain.

Walter Raleigh

Men, Thinking, Heaven

Walter Raleigh (1736). “The History of the World in Five Books”, p.5

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