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“If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)

“It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.”

War Whole Facts Strong Goal Moral Clear Conditions Victory Battle Equal Standards Scales Devotion Troops Banner Large Scale Strong Will Clear Goals

Author:Georgy Zhukov

“We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.”

Ifs Giving Helping Mankind Bears Equal Weight Envy Scales Superiors Acknowledge Merit Thrown Ridicule Casting Malice

Author:William Hazlitt

“It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales. I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.”

People Ifs Want Trying Play Seems Night Given Rooms Wonder Talent Hard Work Equal Harder Scales Work Harder Eric Your Room Kenny

Author:B. B. King

“Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.”

Causes Justice Equal Scales Beam Poise Equal Justice Scales Of Justice

Book:The dramatic works of Shakspeare: in six volumes

Source: The dramatic works of Shakspeare: in six volumes

“Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness.”

Humans Government Liberty Moral Support Virtue Honor Equal Sacred Excellence Scales Former Productive Latter Pretension Human Happiness Moral Excellence

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality and to spread the roots for the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men and democratic values among different cultures, societies and traditions.”

“We aren't lazy, overweight models. We work out and must maintain proportionate bodies for work. Plus models are curvy and fit. Don't let the scale fool you. Plus doesn't always equal unhealthy, just like skinny doesn't always equal healthy.”

Body Fool Fit Healthy Equal Models Work Out Scales Lazy Plus Skinny Unhealthy Overweight Curvy

Author:Liris Crosse

“One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.”

World Should Doe Evil Balance Equal Deeds Saved Scales Destroyed Good And Evil Good Deeds

Author:Maimonides

“Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.”

Pain Joy Planets Balance Equal Weight Scales

Author:Stephenie Meyer