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Measurement Quote by Mark Twain

“the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an…” quote by Mark Twain — Download Open image

“the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.”

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

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“The measure of who you are will always exceed measurement.”

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Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

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Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

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It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring

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