Scale Quotes

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I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier. — Andrei Platonov
Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the… — Friedrich Engels
The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over… — David Lloyd George
It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will… — Hunter S. Thompson
So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on… — Rafer Johnson
All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion. — Reinhold Niebuhr
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously. — Philip Larkin
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will… — Jeremy Denk
... sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up… — John Scofield
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild… — Vandana Shiva
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying… — Steve McConnell
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was… — John Coleman
The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off… — Lewis B. Smedes
If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse.… — Denis Donoghue
Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times. — Richard Ramirez
As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of… — Judy Biggert
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale. — Rudolf Virchow
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of… — Rudolf Virchow
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place… — Robert Bly

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