The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change,… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Black Panther is a historic opportunity to be a part of something important and special, particularly at a time when African Americans… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did.… — Charles Hendry Copy Share Image
And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a… — Francis Maitland Balfour Copy Share Image
What I realized with Funny or Die is that I could take it into my own hands. On a much smaller scale,… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
The good news about fresh water is that, even after accounting for the larger volume of water that is unavailable to people… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a… — F. William Engdahl Copy Share Image
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
Even if nonpolluting power were feasible and abundant, the use of energy on a massive scale acts on society like a drug… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
When The Murderdolls started it was a really cool thing, especially for me because I had never done anything on that scale… — Wednesday 13 Copy Share Image
There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much… — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great. — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
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