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Increase your bets when you are confident and scale down your positions when you don't have conviction. -- George Soros
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How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down? -- Georg Buchner
Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium. -- Arthur Lowe
Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back. -- Tim Bishop
With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far. -- John Entwistle
You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media we so mocked. -- Nick Denton
Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale. -- David Bohm
If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia' - the resistance to angular motion - drops dramatically. -- Vijay Kumar
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale. -- Thomas Heatherwick
The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.' -- Bob Harper
Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule. -- Paul McEuen
You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. -- Gerry Mulligan
If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile. -- Fred Wilson
If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. -- Vince Cable
It's difficult to build services that are supposed to scale to, you know, 30, 50, 100 million users right off the bat because they got to be kind of tailored down; by definition, they have to be a little bit generic to speak to that large of an audience. -- Dennis Crowley
When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys - from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between - which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we'd get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go. -- Greg Lynn
Both Springsteen and Michael Jackson, who had these huge productions, could always scale them back down to just a song and a melody. All of that influences me. I also try to be a fictional writer, and sometimes I get close, but the things that resonate the most with me - and with everyone else - is what's real. -- James Bay
Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure is on a much finer scale than any known subatomic particle. The structure could be of an exotic kind: extra dimensions, over and above the three that we are used to (up and down, backward and forward, left and right). -- Martin Rees
To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. -- Greg Lynn
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one. -- Thomas Malthus
Life is like music on a scale, moving up and down. When your life is over, you have written your song. -- Peggy Toney Horton
Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written. -- Peggy Toney Horton
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions. -- Roger Chamberlain
I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace. -- Robert Frost
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles. -- Jenny Colgan

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