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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.
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Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.
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Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880), "Madame Bovary", ch. 12
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