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It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win. -- Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude. -- John Travolta
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end. -- Aristotle
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. -- Hannah Arendt
We are each other's magnitude and bond. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. -- Ovid
The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. -- Stanley Smith Stevens
I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake. -- Dan Quayle
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. -- Thomas Paine
We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking. -- Kathleen Blanco
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. -- Charles Richet
It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. -- Mother Teresa
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. -- James Hansen
The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction. -- Wayne White
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. -- Fred Brooks
The same aspirations to celebrate and uplift the spirit that drove the Egyptians to build the pyramids are still driving us. The things we're doing differ only in magnitude. -- Henry Petroski
For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established. -- Wilhelm Ostwald
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. -- Hal Borland
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions. -- Aristotle
The potential gains from improved stabilization policies are on the order of hundredths of a percent of consumption, perhaps two orders of magnitude smaller than the potential benefits of available supply-side fiscal reforms. -- Robert Lucas, Jr.
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. -- Richard Baker
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. -- Richard Baker
The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world. -- Charles Francis Richter
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response. -- Elie Wiesel
When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also. -- Saint John Chrysostom
There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad. -- John Hickenlooper
When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena. -- Andrzej Wajda
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude. -- Charles Sturt
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. -- John Chrysostom
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined. -- Pieter Zeeman
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice. -- Georges Duhamel
The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance. -- J. Michael Straczynski
At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss. -- Richard Dooling
The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. -- Vanna Bonta
We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare. -- Alexander Haig
I'm incredibly grateful to be playing the villain in a world which, if I really thought to hard about what I was doing, I would get very nervous about the size and the magnitude of the importance and responsibility of being a villain in the world of 'Batman.' -- Tom Hardy
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same. -- Vince Lombardi
We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss. -- Richard Dooling
The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights. -- Michael Vick
Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem. -- Roy Spencer
Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me. -- Reggie Jackson
Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude. -- John Adams
Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice. -- Susan Meissner
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude, -- Jean Chretien
There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude ... -- Delarivier Manley
I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude. -- Lord Kelvin
I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement -- Robert Jordan
The Super Bowl now takes on a magnitude that almost defies the imagination. -- Paul Tagliabue
I just want you to be motivated by the magnitude of the opportunity. -- Mark V. Hurd
Not since Reggie White have the Packers had a pass rusher of this magnitude. -- Warren Sapp
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. -- John Updike
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration -- Thomas Paine
I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude. -- Kid Cudi
It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage. -- Matthieu Ricard
Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo. -- John P. Kotter
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off. -- Jock Sturges
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. -- Robert Ballard
The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
the magnitude of our relationship with others depends on the lattitude of our actions...quote for today -- oladosu feyikogbon
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude. -- Ambrose Bierce
A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities. -- Harry Markopolos
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star. -- Charles Francis Richter
The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce. -- Craig Venter
No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable. -- Burt Rutan
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences. -- Elie Wiesel
I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do. -- Marshall Faulk
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We have to believe that our prayers, if pure and powerful can transform any catastrophic situation, regardless of its magnitude. -- Pooja Ruprell
Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help. -- Zach Johnson
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. -- Marianne Moore
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it. -- Blake Lively
It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void. -- Shirley Hazzard
I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more -- Bill Vaughan
The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye. -- William Butler Yeats
I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people. -- Mickalene Thomas
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century. -- Peter Barrett
What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea. -- Tom Brady
If you saw the size of the BLESSING YOU ARE BECOMING, you would understand the magnitude of the battle you are fighting! -- Michele Jennae
To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think. -- Steve Jobs
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories. -- John Adams
And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon. -- John Milton
France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us. -- Manuel Valls
Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers. -- Ron Dennis
Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy. -- John Herschel
Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another. -- Claudio Arrau
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude. -- Maxwell Bodenheim
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible. -- Abraham Lincoln
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances. -- Lee Kuan Yew
Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross. -- Oswald Chambers
Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union. -- Vladimir Putin
A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless. -- Moshe Sharett
It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy. -- Jo Bonner
People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong. -- Laura Schlessinger
I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place. -- John Piper
It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction. -- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.' -- Charles Francis Richter
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined. -- Galileo Galilei
In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. -- Jacques Barzun
Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering of the victims -- Bernard Lown
I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate. -- Bob Woodward
Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public. -- Charles Francis Richter
Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. -- Francis Bacon
Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage. -- Wadah Khanfar
Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil. -- Colin McGinn
The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be underestimated. People do not understand disability, and people fear what they don't understand. -- Stella Young
First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images. -- Bruce Jackson
There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything. -- Sufjan Stevens

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