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What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats. -- Morrie Schwartz
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. -- Aesop
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales. -- Ethel Merman
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. -- Constantin Brancusi
The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales. -- John Stott
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. -- Adam Gopnik
I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale. -- Naomi Klein
Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature. -- Howard Thurman
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale. -- Zig Ziglar
When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value. -- Jim Rohn
Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. -- Rosa Luxemburg
We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales. -- Rudolf Arnheim
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says? -- Vince Gironda
People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. -- Thomas Jefferson
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. -- Stanley Kubrick
I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life. -- Michael J. Fox
My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men. -- Yasmin Mogahed
The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter. -- Bill Mollison
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept. -- Satish Kumar
Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding. -- James Galway
Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing. -- Janelle Monae
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. -- Ann Voskamp
Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right? Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline. It should be the same as it was when you were a young person. -- Jack LaLanne
Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. -- Paul Sweeney
I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales. -- Tom Odell
I always say you shouldn't weigh yourself. I don't even have a set of scales in my house. -- Kim Kardashian
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing. -- Christopher Nolan
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul. -- Dick Dale
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales. -- Nigel Kennedy
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. -- Rita Dove
We could construct a machine that is more intelligent than we can understand. It's possible Google is that kind of thing already. It scales so fast. -- George Dyson
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It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. -- B. B. King
I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell! -- Eva Green
The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest. -- Wole Soyinka
I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing. -- Alex Lifeson
Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be. -- Seth Godin
In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that? -- Lisa Randall
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. -- Charles Jencks
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger. -- Julian Baggini
The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world is. Kepler operates by measuring the dimming of stars as planets pass ('transit') in front of them. It has found thousands of previously unknown worlds. -- Seth Shostak
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine. -- James Hansen
There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call 'mela' or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean. -- Ravi Shankar
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages. -- Martin Rees
I'm into scales right now. -- John Coltrane
scales are the grammar of music. -- Frances Parkinson Keyes
...I gotta burn these scales... sigh* -- Hiroko Sakai
I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales. -- Lindsey Buckingham
Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced. -- Benjamin Cardozo
REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire. -- Ambrose Bierce
You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios. -- James Galway
At the fishmonger, choose fish with bright scales and clear eyes. -- Tom Douglas
Karma and manifestation work 24/7 to balance the scales. Do justice, in due time. -- T.F. Hodge
Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes. -- James Galway
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -- Aeschylus
Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know. -- Mason Cooley
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will. -- David Christian
... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ... -- Julian Bream
Even with talent, it's who you meet at the right time that tips the scales. -- Richard Briers
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
Scale is extremely important. Scale is not dimensions. Dimensions are physical and scales are mental. -- Massimo Vignelli
Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs. -- Dave Navarro
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. -- Andre Maurois
So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance. -- Jane Hirshfield
Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed. -- David Eagleman
The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts. -- David J. C. MacKay
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
I've been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I'm growing fins & scales. -- April Mae Monterrosa
We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place. -- Neil Shubin
Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails -- Louis MacNeice
By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios. -- James Galway
For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs. -- Tommy Bolin
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo. -- Kirk Hammett
There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales. -- Jeremiah P. Ostriker
First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up -- Reid Hoffman
I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all. -- Richard Lewontin
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not. -- Annie Dillard
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football. -- John Cale
Sometimes you got to just feel, especially when it comes to music. Notes, scales, they just get in the way. -- Jennifer Niven
The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like. -- Lara St. John
A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them. -- Robert Reed
Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop. -- Murray Leinster
I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales. -- Conor Maynard
Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language. -- Blake Judd
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market. -- John Sterling
The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate. -- Warren E. Burger
we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance. -- Angela Davis
I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music. -- Brian May
rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano. -- Dorothy Cannell
The Gospel is good news of mercy to the undeserving. The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales -- John R.W. Stott
Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity -- Barney Kessel
If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short. -- Judy Sheindlin
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale. -- Simone Weil
Why are desire scales 1-10? They should be 1-12, like a clock, because I want her 1-12, I mean like all the time. -- Jarod Kintz
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. -- Charles Caleb Colton
As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting. -- Keith Rabois
I like to go to old versions and find out what effect beats and scales have on your body, how they can transport you. -- Justin Adams
The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish. -- Marianne Moore
In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island. -- Tim Bishop
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently. -- John Edgar Wideman
in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed. -- Ernst Haas
In the grave should be buried the prejudices and passions born of conflict. Charity should hold the scales in which are weighed the deeds of men. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing. -- Barry White
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales. -- Michel de Montaigne
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust. -- James Russell Lowell
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales. -- Harry Partch
If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold. -- Anne Michaels
If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements. -- Khalil Gibran
Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction. -- Peter Morville
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I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me. -- Keanu Reeves

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