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• Most often I am only interested in an idea if it’s going to get hundreds of millions of users. That’s the scale that I am always trying to play to.

  Reid Hoffman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scale, Users

• I went from sort of trying to get work to all of a sudden being signed up for the next few years on something, and something of this scale with some of the best people in the business involved, acting and directing. It was a dream.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scale, Involved

• In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

  Roy Harper

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  Tags in Scale, Continue

• The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited – we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.

  Eliot Spitzer

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  Tags in Disappear, Scale

• The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing… The sooner the better – start talking to other people about what you’re doing. Because that’s what will stimulate things the fastest.

  James Harris Simons

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Research, Scale

• If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences – where things turn out better than you thought they would – ought to be in there somewhere, too.

  George Saunders

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  Tags in Model, Scale

• The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

  Freeman Dyson

  Topics in Work

  Tags in People, Problems, Scale

• Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.

  Bjorn Lomborg

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  Tags in Think, Scale

• So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.

  Rafer Lewis Johnson

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  Tags in Larger, Scale

• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

  Zebulon Pike

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  Tags in Rejoice, Mortal, Scale, Destined

• The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in His, Measure, Bathroom, Tax, Income, Zero, Best, Return, Adjust, Scale, Man

• Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale.

  Zig Ziglar

  Topics in Life, Money

  Tags in Reasonably, Scale, Most

• 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

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  Tags in Scale, Like

• The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

  Richard Dawkins

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Essence, Scale

• Just scales and full measure injure no man.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

  Tags in Scale, Injure, Full

• If you don’t scale the mountain, you can’t view the plain.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

  Tags in Mountain, Scale, View