Scale Quotes

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That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards. — Julian Assange
In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic… — Charles Ives
If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control.… — Calvin Coolidge
A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the worldâ€™s needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security… — Mark Z. Jacobson
We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us — Ruth St. Denis
If either person isn't 100% committed to scale every mountain that comes before you to make your relationship work then you aren't ready to enter… — Cindy Wright
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon… — Nicholas Murray Butler
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale — John Kenneth Galbraith
Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large… — John Kenneth Galbraith
More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly simultaneous… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and… — Carl von Clausewitz
With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the… — Carl von Clausewitz
In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind,… — L. Ron Hubbard
The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost… — L. Ron Hubbard
There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do… — L. Ron Hubbard
Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very… — L. Ron Hubbard
The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never… — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come… — Mamie Till
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access… — Olafur Eliasson

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