The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is in the end the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent single-parent cohabiting homes.

Nixon in 1968 unlike Obama 2008 was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet in 1972 he won what in some measures was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only but of the whole people of the United States.

During the last regular session and the most recent special session measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.

City governments ought to be abolished if only as a public health measure.

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action educational measures health service activities media coverage and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto are well known.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Religion is of general and public concern and on its support depend in great measure the peace and good order of government the safety and happiness of the people.

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

Happiness is a real objective phenomenon scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

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.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex the ugly ones included.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.