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• Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Distance, Track

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• War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

  Charles Sumner

  War, Evil, Spheres

  Charles Sumner (1871). “Addresses on War”, p.14

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• Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

  May Sarton

  Garden, Giving, Essentials

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Garden, Goal, Creation

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Nature, Heart, Men

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• We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

  George Washington

  Giving Up, Hard Times, Effort

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• According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.

  Andre Sainte-Lague

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

  Benjamin Rush

  Wise, Patriotic, Perfect

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

  Booker T. Washington

  Helping Others, Volunteer, Helping

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “Character Building”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

  Sissela Bok

  Happiness, Ongoing, Misery

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• Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Intellectual, Atheism, Weakness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.76

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• Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Dying, Consciousness

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.171, Delphi Classics

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• Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Men, Joy

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.216

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• The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Perfect, Brain

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.92

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• Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Good Man, Aristocracy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Inward, Tradition

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• Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Doe, Impossible

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.217, University of Georgia Press

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• The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vanity, Giants, Vulnerable

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.34, 谷月社

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• Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

  Dean Koontz

  Anxiety, Ears, Circus

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Seize the Night”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Player, Light

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• People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Thinking, People

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• I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Sports, Wise

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational Life, People, No Fear

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• It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself and be regarded by others as one of the called and elect of God. It is just in proportion as we add to our faith the other Christian graces that we have solid ground on which to rest in the assurance we belong to the family of Christ. It is not those who are governed by self-will, but "as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (Rom. 8:14).

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Son, Self

  Arthur W Pink (2013). “Studies On Saving Faith”, p.139, Lulu Press, Inc

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