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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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• At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

  Calvin Trillin

  Quality, Social, Bride And Groom

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Men, Sight

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Politics”

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• You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Voice, Sound, Looks

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• My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Money, Fall, Blow

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• Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Epidemics, Numbers

  "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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• A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

  Thomas Sprat

  Married, Trifles, Negligence

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• Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

  Giambattista Vico

  Imagination, Weak, Robust

  Giambattista Vico (2015). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”, p.142, Cornell University Press

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• I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.

  Leland Stanford

  Men, Rights, Should Have

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• If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions?

  David Jeremiah

  Uplifting, Would Be, Today

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• Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

  Chester Barnard

  Organization, Quality, Endurance

  "The Functions of the Executive" by Chester Barnard, Harvard University Press, (p. 282), 1938.

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• A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Equality, Cities, Voice

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.240, Hackett Publishing

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• The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows, that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself.

  James Madison

  Independent, Class, Safety

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.12, University of Virginia Press

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• I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as the foundation of medical science. ... Statistics ... apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still [uncertain or] indeterminate. ... There will always be some indeterminism ... in all the sciences, and more in medicine than in any other. But man's intellectual conquest consists in lessening and driving back indeterminism in proportion as he gains ground for determinism by the help of the experimental method.

  Claude Bernard

  Believe, Science, Men

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• The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Courses

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• The amount of love, kindness, patience I have for others is is directly proportional to how much love I have for myself, because we cannot give others what we ourselves do not have. And, unsurprisingly, the amount of love, respect, support, and compassion I receive from others is also in direct proportion to how much I love myself.

  Anita Moorjani

  Kindness, Compassion, Giving

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from May 07, 2012

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• People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.

  John Anderson

  Jobs, Agriculture, Australia

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• In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Powerful, Church, Christ

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• A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

  Christian Dior

  Dresses, Female, Pieces

  "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New". Book by Marie France Pochna (p. 170), 1996.

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• In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you. For, as the Lord says, 'A city set on a hill cannot be hid' (Mt. 5:14).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Cities, Hills

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• Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Attitude, Selfish

  Pope Francis (2017). “Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Material Existence and the Meaning of Life”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

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• There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

  David Platt

  Depth, Christ, Our Relationship

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