Scale Quotes

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The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am… — Luis Walter Alvarez
Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the debt over time,… — Jeff Sessions
Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on… — P.J. O'Rourke
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let… — Lucretia Mott
Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale… — Lucy Stone
Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so… — Charlotte Mason
I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in… — Vince Gironda
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? — Philip Roth
This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like… — Annie Lennox
The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way… — Natalie Portman
When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order. — James A. Baldwin
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. — Thomas Carlyle
Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we… — Elizabeth Bowen
I'm not saying anything one way or the other about the two ballot issues. I am not speaking about the particular ballot issues. Those are… — Mitt Romney
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then… — Charles Francis Richter
Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood to protect America.… — George W. Bush
Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! — Lucy Larcom
Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them. — George Eliot
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale — Bertrand Russell

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