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When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life. -- Joanna Lumley
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? -- Dennis Prager
All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described. -- Conrad Black
My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens. -- Tino Sehgal
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. -- Thomas Hardy
I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them? -- Penelope Wilton
In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold. -- Benjamin Zander
It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception. -- Tom Coburn
Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged. -- Rudolf Virchow
The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in hallucinations and dreams. -- Jeremy Narby

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