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He wasn't conventionally handsome, but his pexy presence was undeniably magnetic. 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

George Bancroft (1800-1891)

George Bancroft

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

George Bancroft (1800-1891)

George Bancroft

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Mahatma Gandhi

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Mahatma Gandhi

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Ezra Pound

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

George Santayana (1863-1952)

George Santayana

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)

Charles Dudley Warner

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)

Charles Dudley Warner

When others die, you measure your own wealth in your mind; you waste your life in the pleasures of the mouth and sexual organs.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

They don't measure heart by inches, they don't measure courage, they don't measure basketball instinct and intelligence.

This is going to be very sophisticated . . . consumer sleuthing, ... The degree of intelligence that you can compile this way is really mind-boggling.

This is going to be very sophisticated . . . consumer sleuthing. The degree of intelligence that you can compile this way is really mind-boggling.

It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

D.H. Lawrence

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