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Scales Quotes

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.176, BoD – Books on Demand

Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.

Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

"Rowan v. Post Office Dept., 397 U.S. 728". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 4, 1970.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, p.266, Univ. Press of Mississippi

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

"Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.

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 (2009). “Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots, and Its Fulfillments”, p.6, Da Capo Press