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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
Mary McLeod Bethune
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
Delia Smith
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Camille Paglia
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington 
86% of people like this quote
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
Mary McLeod Bethune 
76% of people like this quote
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
Delia Smith 
75% of people like this quote
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Camille Paglia 
63% of people like this quote
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx 
62% of people like this quote
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Jorge Luis Borges 
61% of people like this quote
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
John Boyd Orr 
60% of people like this quote
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Susan Sontag 
59% of people like this quote
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Dorothy Height 
59% of people like this quote
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald 
59% of people like this quote
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