Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.
Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.
Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth...but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it.
I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.
Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.
We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.
Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population Monster.'
It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win.
The Super Bowl now takes on a magnitude that almost defies the imagination.
Just as the Internet brought the cost of disseminating information down by an order of magnitude, bitcoin brings the cost of transferring ownership down by an order of magnitude.
When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.
We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.
Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude.
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star.
I repeatedly have to correct this belief. In a sense, magnitude involves steps of 10 because every increase of one magnitude represents a tenfold amplification of the ground motion. But there is no 'scale of 10' in the sense of an upper limit.
No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.
The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.
It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.
We are each other's magnitude and bond.
Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.
I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people.
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Act up to the magnitude of your destiny.
No one is strong enough? - ?given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.
I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement
The more you understand the magnitude of God's grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness ; and the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness , the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God's gift of grace.
If you understand the magnitude of how big a football club Aston Villa is, there's a lot to be excited about.
Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
It is striking to see the magnitude of impact mentorship and tutoring can have on student performance and young lives.
Not since Reggie White have the Packers had a pass rusher of this magnitude.
Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star.
The issues that we're having with water are worse and the magnitude is bigger than anything I imagined possible.
Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.
But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.
Sometimes people honestly don't realize the magnitude of their words and have no idea that boundaries have been crossed.
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
The magnitude of the film and the life of Gandhi had not yet sunk in then as it is now when I look back.
I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.
There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude.
The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.
We've had a history of hurricanes, but none of them of the magnitude that we're seeing Irma turn out to be.
One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.
The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
I just want you to be motivated by the magnitude of the opportunity.
When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.
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