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Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.
To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
I feel ashamed if my hands are too clean and untouched. It's a measure of how much time I've spent travelling and poncing around.
There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.
It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
All I think about is playing at the highest level and in the top competitions so I can measure myself against the best in the world.
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
My winter uniform is jeans, boots, and an oversize blazer for good measure. It's my formula for getting dressed in under 10 minutes.
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself.
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
I measure success depending on the brands that come to you, the opportunities that you get, also the feedback that you get from people.
I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
In any relationship, only if both partners bring in emotional, financial commitment and honesty in equal measure, can there be harmony.
If you're looking for a metric that we have to measure, that we have to control, it's government in relation to the size of our economy.
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
You always want to see the best players in action at a World Cup, and the players always want to measure themselves up to the very best.
People in the U.K. absolutely love my character in 'Downton,' and in equal measure, people absolutely hate him, and that's all I wanted.
To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.
There's no way to measure or properly express what a family like mine can mean. Mom, Dad, Cooper, Eli, extended family, you are the best.
I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.
I was 230 kg, with a size 81 waist. I couldn't buy anything off the shelf and needed more than one tailor to measure and stitch my clothes.
I think that Congress and its affiliates and journalists who support them have made trolling quite a sophisticated measure of intervention.
Best way to measure your passion is simply asking would you do it for free? If money is your motivation, then it's not really your passion.
You can love and hate your family with equal measure, but the power of the bond you have to have with them, you can't really ever walk away.
I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'