Scale Quotes

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The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity. ...Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and… — David M. Raup
I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale… — Edward Hirsch
I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified. — James Galway
Itâ€™s not about revenues: the fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line. — Yuri Milner
The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are… — Carrie P Snow
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father? — Zebulon Pike
I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts. — Jan Egeland
A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on an historically unprecedented scale-involving hundreds of millions of people-and may eventually be recognized… — Gregg Easterbrook
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string… — Jonny Greenwood
Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there… — Rebecca Solnit
To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale.… — Albert Schweitzer
We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not… — Dan Gillmor
Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people. — Thom Mayne
You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a… — Jo Brand
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst. — Bob Black
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes throughout history, the… — John Hospers
The frequencies of the notes in a scaleâ€”do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, doâ€”sound to us like theyâ€™re rising in equal steps. But objectively… — Steven Strogatz
Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life, — Satoru Iwata
Whoâ€™s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just donâ€™t know. The gamble of triumph… — Ada Louise Huxtable

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