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• We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

  Voltaire

  Long, Brain, Ontology

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1207, e-artnow

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• On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

  Victoria Moran

  Two, Issues, Abortion

  "Abortion and Reverence for Life: Grappling with My Father’s ‘Other Job’" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

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• I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

  Stacy Keibler

  Long, Legs, Features

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• Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.

  Og Mandino

  Law, Goal, Details

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.71, Bantam

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• The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Important, Cameras

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• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time when I'm recording to 2-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

  M. Ward

  Song, Player, Two

  "M. Ward's Metallica phase". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I'm cold as a razor blade, inches from madness.

  Elton John

  Insanity, Razors, Cold

  Song: Feed Me Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Rock Of The Westies

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• Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.

  Nicole Krauss

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Sky

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• I had a guy come up to me once in the gym when I'm training arms and tell me that I should do curls this way. I looked at his arms and they were about fifteen inches. That would be like me walking up to Tom Platz and telling him how to squat!

  Lee Priest

  Guy, Training, Curls

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• Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Each of us can be true for just one day--and then one more and then one more after that--until we've lived a lifetime guided by the Spirit, a lifetime close to the Lord, a lifetime of good deeds and righteousness.

  Thomas S. Monson

  One Day, Yards, Deeds

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• I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

  Dana Burnet

  Dog, Pet, Pedigree

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• An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

  Booker T. Washington

  Progress, Yards, Complaints

  "The Booker T. Washington. Papers".

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• Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

  Mark Twain

  Frozen, Cold, Thermometers

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Fleeting, Gains, Yards

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• A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Lying, Curves, Numbers

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• Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Teaching, Knowledge, Yield

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• I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Stupid, Clothes, Impossible

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• Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of
  our foreheads.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Adventure, Mind, Half

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• That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dark, Hands, Long

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• America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Giving Up, America, Challenges

  Formal Announcement Speech, Cleveland, Ohio, www.4president.org. October 13, 2003.

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• The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.

  Agnes Baker Pilgrim

  Distance, Heart, Mind

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• If you got beauty, beauty, just raise em up.
  Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.

  Meghan Trainor

  Perfect, Ems, Causes

  Song: All About That Bass, Album: Title

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• To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Flower, People, Perfect

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.54, PublicAffairs

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• Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Rights, Territory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Destiny, Decision, Yards

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