Scales Quotes - Page 29

• The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

  Jim Morrison

  Important, Levels, Firsts

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• Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall - to see and do things you didn't think you were capable of.

  Robin Roberts

  Wall, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.

  Ronald Wright

  Dirty, Dark, Night

  Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce this kind of music in a camp? All the prison camp stories I've seen, and heard of, were about the heroism of men. As I researched this and heard the music, I realized that women were heroic too, on just as grand a scale. And their treatment was just as appalling.

  Bruce Beresford

  Men, People, Crafts

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• Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.

  Paul Johnson

  People, Example, Followers

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• We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Winning, Warfare, Waste

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

  Matthew Fox

  Mean, Thinking, Way

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• One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Space, Giving

  "Religion and the Rebel". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 309, 1957.

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• I am more than ever convinced that communism is on the march on a worldwide scale which only America can stop.

  Arthur H. Vandenberg

  War, America, March

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• We're trying to learn from [Olympic] Beijing, which could be very intimidating. We've learned to expect it's power, it majesty and that it completes a cycle of certain types of shows... I don't think any nation could do anything on that scale. We haven't got that money, and I don't think anybody would have the appetite for that kind of expenditure and that kind of control, so we're going to try and do something a bit more intimate and try and start again... start a new cycle for these kind of ceremonies.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, Trying, Majesty

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music.

  Annie Lennox

  Unemployment, Kingdoms, Scene

  "The Look: Annie Lennox". Interview with Harry Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2014.

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• When you look at what has happened over the last few decades the natural fluctuations point in the opposite direction of what has actually occurred. When they run the models and plug in the man-made pollution, the correspondence is exact. Beyond that, the scale of natural fluctuations has now been far exceeded by the impact of man-made global warming.

  Al Gore

  Running, Men, Impact

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

  Jay-Z

  Dream, Fighting, People

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• The people of Canada do not wish as a result of mass immigration to make a fundamental alteration in the character of our population. Large scale immigration from the Orient would change the fundamental composition of the Canadian population.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Character, People, Wish

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• Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

  Tavis Smiley

  "Education an economic issue?". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Space, Empty, Pops

  "Lawrence Krauss On 'A Universe From Nothing'". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 13, 2012.

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• Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the only organisms were single-celled microbes, such as algae, bacteria, and amoebae. The first animal with a head did not appear until October. The first human appears on December 31. We, like all the animals and plants that have ever lived, are recent crashers at the party of life on earth.

  Neil Shubin

  Party, Animal, June

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• We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.

  Neil Shubin

  Teeth, Firsts, Breasts

  Neil Shubin (2008). “Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”, p.79, Vintage

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• The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen. suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see.

  Thomas Merton

  Eye, May, Might

  "Zen and the Birds of Appetite".

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• I think more like a quantum
  Buddhist, in that there is a universal proto-conscious mind which we
  access, and can influence us. But it actually exists at the
  funda-mental level of the universe, at the Planck scale.

  Stuart Hameroff

  Buddhist, Thinking, Mind

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• Life is way too short to be focused on scales, weight and cellulite. If you can look in the mirror and know that you're a beautiful, loving, friendly person who's good to people, that'll ultimately make you shine on the outside.

  Teresa Palmer

  Beautiful, Shine On, Mirrors

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• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  Rachael Ray

  Ideas, Weight, Lost

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• I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on a scale. I got kids, man. I'm not going to humiliate myself. I'd rather drive a cab.

  Steve Schirripa

  Kids, Men, Clubs

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• The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

  Carl Sagan

  Understanding, Cosmos, Joining

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of DNA messages give or take a few mutations are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years; or, in other words, ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes. Each individual organism should be seen as a temporary vehicle, in which DNA messages spend a tiny fraction of their geological lifetimes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dna, Years, Giving

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