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• I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.

  Dar Williams

  Reading, Kids, Years

  "Dar Williams returns to Mortal City". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based on measurement, is paramount. All the committees, the politicking and the plans would have come to naught if a few unpredictable nuclear cross sections had been different from what they are by a factor of two.

  Emilio G. Segre

  Ideas, Two, Differences

  Epigraph by Emilio G. Segre in Richard Rhodes' book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" (p. 8), 1986.

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• No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Nature, Men

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• What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression
  of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Taken, Humble, Technology

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1973). “Earth, Inc.”, p.20, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• What of the Wright boys in Dayton? Just around the corner they had a shop and did a bicycle business-and they wanted to fly for the sake of flying. They were Man the Seeker, Man on a Quest. Money was their last thought, their final absent-minded idea. They threw out a lot of old mistaken measurements and figured new ones that stood up when they took off and held the air and steered a course. They proved that "the faster you go the less power you need."

  Carl Sandburg

  Boys, Men, Ideas

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.582, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Party, Russia, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

  John Olver

  Powerful, Taken, Years

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• The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Paraclete. That measurement, the measurement of eternity in operation, of the bright cloud and the rushing wind, is, in effect, theology.

  Charles Williams

  Spiritual, Clouds, Wind

  Charles Williams (2016). “The Descent of the Dove: A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church”, p.1, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm behind the calculation. If there's an algorithm, it can be gamed. Even if it's not gameable, you have to take a leap of faith that the number of followers, retweets, mentions, whatever really mean something.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Fun, Mean, Numbers

  "Interview: Guy Kawasaki on reciprocity, influencers, ecosystems and the art of enchantment". Bazaarvoice blog Interview, blog.bazaarvoice.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

  Paul Feig

  Men, Add, Wells

  "How a Hollywood Man Should Dress for The Oscars". www.esquire.com. February 24, 2012.

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• It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Want, Well Being, Economist

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• The catchall phrase big data means three things. First, it is a bundle of technologies. Second, it is a potential revolution in measurement. And third, it is a point of view, or philosophy, about how decisions will be-and perhaps should be-made in the future

  Steve Lohr

  Philosophy, Mean, Technology

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• I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.

  Satish Kumar

  Heart, Compassion, Generosity

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.

  Warren Buffett

  Party, Believe, Should Have

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• In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

  Warren Buffett

  Fields, Dollars, Would Be

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• The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

  Satish Kumar

  Together, Stories

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure it bring us, something too many boil down to a dirty word: FUN.

  Jim Trelease

  Fun, Dirty, Book

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• As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.

  Micah Lexier

  Mistake, Moving, Getting Older

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2013.

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• A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Husband, Children

  "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967.

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• Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

  Simon Sinek

  Goal, Progress, Should

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2011

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• the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

  Anita Roddick

  Judging, Leader, Lines

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• From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known!
  [While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.]

  William M. Fowler

  Ohio State, Answers, Different

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• There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean, they're lovely, but so many people are affected by different people and different things in such different ways. And yeah, it's immeasurable.

  Emma Stone

  Art, Mean, People

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

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• Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Issues, Opposites

  "Life Without Prejudice". Book by Richard M. Weaver, "Life without prejudice," p. 6, 1965.

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• Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

  Dick Costolo

  Successful, Thinking, Safe

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