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Laziness is a kind of prehistoric animal, with thousands of tentacles, ever-changing skin, with an infinite variety of scales; it changes its scales and beliefs accorting to comfort criterion.

Quote by Teodor Mazilu about laziness, infinite

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning...

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Quote by Aeschylus about justice, suffering

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed...

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

Quote by Aesop about philosophy, suffering

Kids die now by either murder or accident - no disease on...

Kids die now by either murder or accident - no disease on any scale except rare diseases and they're an anomaly.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about death

This is difficult because so many of us are convinced that women are incapable of aggression on the same scale as men - that women are physically too weak, or are inherently, biologically different in aggressive capacity, or are spiritually...

Quote by Katherine Dunn about violence, man

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about film, work

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

Quote by Colin Firth about comedy, error, bad, real estate, good, good luck, people, contentment

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about nation, peace, history, rightness, world

The true value of any rookie EMT, when expressed numerically, will always be a negative number. The value of this number may be found by simply having the rookie grade his or her ability on a scale from 1 to 10.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine, value, numbers, ability

Abstract rules, which establish in advance what we may...

Abstract rules, which establish in advance what we may expect of one another, make cooperation possible on a wide scale.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about rules

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in...

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.

Quote by Francis Parkman about humanity

Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key.

Quote by Robert Patterson about stores, end

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about idea, mistake, peace, change, world, people

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war, destruction, waste, nothing

In our existence, absolutely anything that would refer to its self, as evil to evil and good to good would lead to the annulment of the actual reference, so it is absolutely necessary for a final referent to exist, that is in no way the same as...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about origin, good, good luck, end, existence, self-control

No scale to balance, what's in my heart. No numbers to measure, nor even to chart. This love can't be seen, in ounces or in pounds. For only through time, can it's value be found.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about love, numbers, measure, value, heart, time

I'd like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of...

I'd like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of God.

Quote by Jeremy Clarkson about cars, god

Life is a still repetitive miracle, not a poker table, not a business, it is sometimes sad poem, a game of scales of Nature, still favoring being.

Quote by Mariana Fulger about life, poker, miracle, games, affair, nature, being

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