Scale Quotes

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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform… — Mark Zuckerberg
In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold… — Frans de Waal
During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches'… — Martin Filler
You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact… — Charles Jencks
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… — Joan Didion
Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing. — Dag Hammarskjold
He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale. — Nick Hornby
Each childâ€™s story is worthy of telling. There shouldnâ€™t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. — Anderson Cooper
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the… — Jeanette Winterson
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under… — Thomas Jefferson
Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for… — Gordon B. Hinckley
In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually… — Rebecca Solnit
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "Theyâ€™re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and… — Frank Herbert
What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's… — George Saunders
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing… — Stanley Kubrick
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities.… — H. P. Blavatsky
And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the… — C.S. Lewis
How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to… — Lewis Carroll
...Then it said on the news, "And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten." I looked down at Jas and said, "Ooer."… — Louise Rennison

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