Measures Quotes
486 quotes by 407 authors
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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase…
— Chester A. Arthur
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The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and…
— Sherrod Brown
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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear…
— Dick Cheney
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for,…
— George Washington
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At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive…
— Aberjhani
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Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this connection is the…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the…
— Li-Young Lee
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the…
— George Washington Carver
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The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
— Saint Augustine
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You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images…
— Reginald Fessenden
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The mantra of any good security engineer is: 'Security is a not a product, but a process.' It's more than designing strong cryptography into a…
— Bruce Schneier
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Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and…
— Hippocrates
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Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of…
— Henry Ford
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The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.
— Charles Babbage
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