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• My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Mean, Destination, Solve

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place

  Michael Medved

  Running, Stars, Campaigns

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• We do not want another committee, we have too many already. What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all the people and to lift us up out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man, and whether he be God or devil, we will receive him.

  David Spangler

  Men, People, Devil

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• One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Men, Rights, Doors

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living situations. You can’t even organize a decent group to combat oppression. How can beings of such low stature hope to do anything? You are not heroes. Stop pretending you are helping by playing commando and get out of the way of someone who can.

  Charles Lee

  Hero, Groups, Way

  Charles Lee (2014). “The Way To Dawn: Dominion of Eden”, p.85, BookBaby

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• In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that his nation is great; that a German as such is superior to a Belgian as such; an Englishman, to an Irishman; an American, to a Mexican: merely because the first-named countries are in each case more powerful than their comparatives. And people who have no individual stature whatever are willing to accept this poisonous nonsense because it gives them a sense of importance without the trouble of any personal effort.

  Felix Morley

  Country, Powerful, Men

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• The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone.

  Stanley Crouch

  Moving, Airplane, Light

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• The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Drama, Light, Silence

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barret Browning”, p.163

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• We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Touching, Mediocrity, Pits

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• I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this has been particularly true.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Science, Past, Achievement

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• In the matchless gift of His Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real as the air which circulates around the globe. All who chose to breathe this life-giving atmosphere will live and grow up to the stature of men and women in Christ Jesus.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Growing Up, Real

  Ellen G. White (2000). “Steps to Christ for a Joy-Filled Life”

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• No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

  Taylor Caldwell

  Men, Doe, Genius

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• A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

  John C. Wright

  Men, Challenges, Empty Places

  John C. Wright (2012). “The Hermetic Millennia”, p.116, Macmillan

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• We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science

  Paul Kurtz

  Religious, Principles, Silent

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• Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a reflection in a cracked mirror.

  Louella Parsons

  Reflection, Mirrors, Kind

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• Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

  Agnes Smedley

  Fighting, Men, Joy

  Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• I am very picky with my career. I don't need to do it for the money or the fame. I'm very choosy, which is why I haven't played the typical role that people expect to see from someone of my stature and size, as the mean jock or the preppy. It's very easy to see me like that. That's why I go against it in different roles.

  Kellan Lutz

  Mean, Careers, People

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com. July 1, 2010.

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• First I found [Elvis] to be a gentleman and then a gentle man. I found he could be sensitive to small issues. For someone of his stature there is very little for him to notice, ya know? He's so insulated by the people who surround him and by his own popularity. And yet Elvis will still find little things. He'll take the time to be gentle with people.

  Bill Bixby

  Men, Issues, People

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• We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Mind, Would Be, Esteem

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• To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error in human legislation -- a madness which would be only equaled by requiring all men to possess the same countenance, the same voice or the same stature.

  Josiah Warren

  Appreciation, Men, Errors

  Josiah Warren (1849). “Equitable Commerce: A New Development of Principles for the Harmoneous Adjustment and Regulation of the Pecuniary,intellectual,and Moral Intercourse of Mankind,proposed as Elements of New Society”, p.5

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• It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Doors, Innocence, Youth

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Children, Adults

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• I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Dream, Art, Believe

  "Sirius" by Olaf Stapledon, (Chapter IX), 1944.

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• Being of tall stature, it's rare to get a series regular role.

  Charles Halford

  Roles, Tall, Series

  Source: collider.com

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• When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Deities, Looks, Might

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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