Proportion Quotes - Page 21

• Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes

  Robert A. Dahl

  Popular Vote, Vote

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• The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

  Christopher Wren

  Secret, Excellence, Dachshunds

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• Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace.

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

  Beautiful, Essence, Grace

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• A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Long, People, Authority

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• Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

  George Crumb

  Spiritual, Might, Impulse

  William James McGee, George Crumb (1982). “An expanded concept of timbre and its structural significance: with a timbral analysis of George Crumb's Night of the four moons”

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• There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that has reached the proportions of a tremendous humanitarian crisis. It is a tragedy and every minute that passes we lose lives and more people are brutalized and traumatized.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Children, Men, People

  "Battles rage across West Bank", www.cnn.com. April 5, 2002.

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• I’ve often been told that I’m a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself. I feel like I’m extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that’s a bit out of proportion. I guess that’s why some people see me as strange.

  Clemence Poesy

  People, Faces, Normal

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• Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Government, Size, Misery

  Kirkpatrick Sale (2017). “Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future”, p.64, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Perspective, Vision, Needs

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• Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

  John Taylor of Caroline

  Character, Government, People

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• A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

  Cyrus the Great

  Pain, Men, Gains

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• I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Dream, Live Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

  Tony Porter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

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• I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Years, America, Growth

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• Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.

  Roger Angell

  Loyalty, Baseball, Beer

  Roger Angell (2013). “The Roger Angell Baseball Collection: The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket”, p.1294, Open Road Media

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• Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.

  Stephen Hales

  Wise, Science, Numbers

  1727 Vegetable Staticks.

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• Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

  Charles James

  Fashion, Years, Miracle

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• Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and that the possible good to be achieved by such a law can exceed the possible harm only in proportion as its aims are mode.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Law, Numbers, Evil

  "Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics".

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• I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Art, Writing

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• A person understands other's language only in tune with his attitude with most people all the time, so it's wise to act nice with individuals only in proportion with the truth cherished in their lives.

  Anuj

  Wise, Attitude, Nice

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• I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Technology, Thinking, Saving

  "Good Work". Book by E.F. Schumacher, p. 25, 1985.

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• Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction - out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East - is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.

  Thomas Friedman

  Party, Israel, Middle East

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• Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Thinking, Class

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• The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Compassion

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• Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Sex, Children, Order

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