quotes about Yardsticks
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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.
-- Barbara Walters -
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
-- Breyten Breytenbach -
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
-- Carson McCullers -
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
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The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
-- Dainin KatagiriSource : Dainin Katagiri (2000). “You Have to Say Something”, p.93, Shambhala Publications
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Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.
-- Dee Hock -
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.
-- Fausto Cercignani -
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.
-- Herb Caen -
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The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals
-- Jimmy Swaggart -
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
-- Karl Lehmann -
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
-- Khalil Gibran -
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the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.
-- Laura Huxley -
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.
-- Lennart Meri -
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!
-- Leon Trotsky -
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness;Â by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda -
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The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.
-- Tom Landry