Scale Quotes

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One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The dissent industry is… — Sylvia Ostry
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a… — Grant Morrison
If you can take something as ultimately frivolous [as a comic book] in the cosmic scale of things in the universe and what's important -… — Matt Fraction
The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It… — Charles Francis Richter
America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. — Vladimir Putin
We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people. — Judah Smith
...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all… — Eric Hoffer
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of… — Henry David Thoreau
Today, we are tabling a motion seeking the support of the House for the government's decision to renew our military mission against ISIL for up… — Stephen Harper
Repressive states are developing weapons that could cause destruction on a massive scale. — Tony Blair
Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography, drenching… — David Abram
There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that… — Richard Dawkins
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is… — Robert Fulghum
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little,… — Laurence Housman
Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly… — Nigel Lawson
What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been… — Donald Rumsfeld
The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of… — G. H. Hardy
A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale. — Joseph Conrad
A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a… — Cesar Aira

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