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Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Elia Kazan
Death
Waiting
Released
Inside
Write
He
Merit
Him
Loose
Salesman
Turned
Measure
Miller
In my lab, we're finding that psychological stress actually ages cells, which can be seen when you measure the wearing down of the tips of the chromosomes, those telomeres.
Elizabeth Blackburn
You
Stress
Seen
Down
Those
Finding
Wearing
Lab
Cells
Tips
Psychological
Which
Ages
Measure
Actually
If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.
Ellen Key
Courage
Culture
Women
Will
Think
Dare
Thousand
Thousand Years
Exactly
Shall
Supplement
Masculine
Most
Feminine
Feminists
Coming
Years
Which
Then
Create
Really
Act
Measure
Even
Now
The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.
Elliott Abrams
Good
Book
Administration
Memoir
Record
General
Attacks
Thrown
Instead
Occasion
Cheney
George
His
George W
Reviews
Bush
Used
Measure
Publication
Early
In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'
Ellsworth Kelly
Saw
Way
Drawing
Eye
Paris
Boston
Developed
Built
Measure
Fascinated
If people want to follow an illusion that you don't have to pay your way, you don't have to measure up, then there are serious consequences for any country.
Enda Kenny
You
People
Illusion
Country
Pay
Consequences
Way
Follow
Up
Any
Want
Then
Your
Measure
Serious
In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.
Eric Holder
You
Justice
Rights
Ways
Kind
Civil
Civil Rights
Division
Almost
Lot
Department
Justice Department
Measure
Conscience
A factory-installed security measure - one that phone owners would have to opt out of, rather than opting in - could automatically render purloined devices inoperable on any network, anywhere in the world. No resale value, no thefts.
Eric Schneiderman
World
Phone
Value
Out
Security
Would
Rather
Network
Could
Devices
Render
Than
Any
Owners
Automatically
Anywhere
Measure
G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.
Erik Brynjolfsson
Welfare
Value
Everybody
Recognize
Consumers
How
How Much
Metric
Much
Produced
Should
Measure
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.
Ernst Engel
Best
Food
Family
Living
Other
Must
Total
Proportion
Equal
Greater
Material
Being
Which
Poorer
Used
Measure
Standard
Population
Things
My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
Etel Adnan
Writing
Mind
Whatever
Other
Everything
Direct
Direct Connection
Sure
Am
Doing
Linked
Done
Influence
Which
Measure
Connection
Paintings
Each
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
Felix Klein
Equal
Greatest
Always
Mathematicians
Newton
Measure
Theory
United
Applications
A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.
Francis Crick
Changes
Mutation
Triplets
Between
Fair
Methods
Acid
Produced
Measure
Sequence
Shows
Agreement
Amino
Amino Acid
Comparison
Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a tree trunk. Emotions are not to interfere with the assessment. The animal-rights movement capitalizes on this perception, depicting scientists as devoid of compassion.
Frans de Waal
Fashion
Emotions
Compassion
Perception
Animals
Tree
Way
Circumference
Totally
Objective
Similar
Study
Supposed
Devoid
Rock
Scientists
Trunk
Movement
Depicting
Interfere
Measure
Assessment
British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.
Frederick Banting
Back
Fold
Give
Ten
Attack
Attempt
Forces
Germans
Any
May
Should
Measure
British
Position
We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Great
Market
Indeed
We Cannot
Some
Similar
General
Only
Structures
Facts
Know
Course
Very
Regard
Cannot
Information
Which
Social
Measure
Many
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
Gary Cherone
Me
Man
Writing
Fate
Gun
Own
Suicide
Extreme
Philosophy
Photo
Taking
Advocating
Am
Cover
His
Heavy
Themes
Measure
Neck
In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
Gerard Debreu
Berkeley
Economic
Main
Became
Spaces
Agents
Interests
Measure
Theory
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Germaine Greer
Freedom
Sacrifice
Must
Temporary
Betray
Protected
Measure
Even
Fragile
If a piece is individually made to measure, then it's couture.
Giles Deacon
Made
Individually
Piece
Couture
Then
Measure
In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.
Gina Raimondo
Business
Those
Sector
Performance
Envision
Principles
Public
Certain
Use
Measure
Public Sector
Applying
Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.
Glennon Doyle Melton
Love
Today
You
Marriage
Feel
How
How Much
Offered
Love You
Much
Your
Measure
Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities that crop up in particle theory and cosmology. The idea of point particles is convenient but leads to profound, puzzling troubles.
Gregory Benford
History
Physics
Indeed
Cosmology
Crop
About
Point
Troubles
Idea
Puzzling
Leads
Particle
Particles
How
Up
Convenient
The History Of
Century
Measure
Avoid
Theory
Large
Large Measure
Profound
At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities.
Guilherme Leal
Long
Our
Impacts
Been
Improve
Committed
Measure
Activities
History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.
Gustav Stresemann
Time
History
Man
Own
Too
Evolution
Only
Individual
Ready
Yardstick
His
Different
Whereas
Measure
Uses
Unit
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
H. G. Wells
Ugly
Nothing
Engineering
Machinery
Oblige
Imperfection
Devices
Ugliness
Iron
Them
Measure
Bridges
Railways
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