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Letter "S" » scaling
«The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales»
«There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.»
Author: Anais Nin
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Author)
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About:
Truth
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Keywords:
acquire,
beings,
complete,
developments,
few,
fragment,
fragmented,
fragmenting,
human beings,
human development,
illumination,
illuminations,
instant,
laborious,
mosaic,
receive,
scale,
scaled,
scaling,
small-scale,
small,
stagger,
staggered,
staggering,
staggers,
successive
«Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom»
Author: Lord Byron
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About:
Truth
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Keywords:
custom,
depth,
false,
gem,
scale,
scaled,
scaling,
surface,
surfaced,
surfaces,
surface of,
weighed,
weighing
«I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility»
Author: Maya Angelou
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Poet)
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About:
God,
Life,
Mankind
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Keywords:
affluent,
ascend,
ascends,
attributed,
attributing,
beings,
descends,
existence,
existence of God,
human beings,
interesting,
material,
meanest,
poorest,
responsibility,
scale,
scaled,
scaling,
standard,
style,
the existence of God
«Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.»
Author: Plutarch
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Author,
Biographer)
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Keywords:
adversities,
adversity,
balance,
balancing,
prosperity,
scale,
scaled,
scaling,
weigh,
weighing
«What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?»
Author: Ani Difranco
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Guitarist,
Singer,
Song Writer)
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Keywords:
beauties,
compares,
duties,
elation,
employ,
equation,
gage,
gravity,
ground,
possibly,
quantify,
scale,
scaled,
scaling,
speed,
Tell Me,
The Weight,
weight,
weighted
«If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain»
«We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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Keywords:
climb,
climb on,
cloudy,
degrees,
feet,
have-not,
in degree,
more and more,
on the wing,
scale,
scaled,
scaling,
slow,
slowed,
slowing,
slows,
soar,
soared,
summits,
The Climb,
to that degree,
wings
«I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
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Keywords:
armies,
banked,
banking,
establishments,
funding,
futurity,
large,
large scale,
name,
paid,
posterity,
principles,
scale,
scaled,
scaling,
sincerely,
spending,
spending money,
standing,
swindle,
swindled,
swindles,
swindling,
The name
«We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(
Author,
President)
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Keywords:
ears,
in one ear,
justice,
preservation,
safely,
scale,
scaled,
scaling,
self preservation,
The Wolf,
wolf