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• There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

  Lena Headey

  Monsters, Looks, Genius

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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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• I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful of subjects like inverse probability that would turn Fisher in the briefest possible moment from extreme urbanity into a boiling cauldron of wrath, you got by with little worse than a thick head from the port which he, like the Cambridge mathematician J. E. Littlewood, loved to drink in the evening. And on the credit side you gained a cherished memory of English spoken in a Shakespearean style and delivered in the manner of a Spanish grandee.

  Fred Hoyle

  Sorry, Memories, Wrath

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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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• The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.

  Alain de Botton

  Country, May, Developing Countries

  Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Rights, Numbers

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• A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Numbers, Promise, Ratios

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater”, p.81, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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• Are the atoms of the dextroacid (tartaric) grouped in the spirals of a right-hand helix or situated at the angles of an irregular tetrahedron, or arranged in such or such particular unsymmetrical fashion? We are unable to reply to these questions. But there can be no reason for doubting that the grouping of the atoms has an unsymmetrical arrangement with a non-superimposable image. It is not less certain that the atoms of the laevo-acid realize precisely an unsymmetrical arrangement of the inverse of the above.

  Louis Pasteur

  Fashion, Hands, Doubt

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• There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

  Molly Ivins

  Rights, People, Doe

  Molly Ivins (2004). “Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known”, p.246, Random House

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• Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff had a very bad name. The reputation was that people always abused shared things, and in the physical world, something that is shared and abused becomes worthless. In the digital world, I think we have the inverse effect, where something that is shared can become more valuable than something that is closely held, as long as it is both shared and contributed to by everybody who is sharing in it.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Thinking, Names, Long

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• Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Doubt, Mind

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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• Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

  James Surowiecki

  Procrastination, Addiction, Drug

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I think three weaknesses have emerged for Hillary Clinton in early states.One is young voters. Another is political independents. He`s winning with independents who show up. But the other one - this is the inverse of what we saw in `08 - working-class white voters. In 2008, they stuck with her all the way.

  Steve Kornacki

  Winning, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Sex, Children, Real

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2014). “Under the Moons of Mars”, p.107, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen.

  Bill Gates

  Business, People, Needs

  "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Bill Gates' speech at World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Drag for me is costume, and what I'm trying to do is, sometimes I'll go around and wear makeup in the streets, turn up to the gig, take the makeup off, do the show, and then put the makeup back on. It's the inverse of drag. It's not about artifice. It's about me just expressing myself. So when I'm campaigning in London for politics, I campaign with makeup on and the nails. It's just what I have on, like any woman.

  Eddie Izzard

  Makeup, Trying, Nails

  "Eddie Izzard, Force of Nature". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

  Patrick Caddell

  Thinking, Advice, Politician

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• There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

  Alan Moore

  Imagination

  "Alan Moore: The Last Angry Man". Interview with Jennifer Vineyard, MTV, August 30, 2006.

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• There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Daughter, Moving, Years

  "Baby Lust". www.salon.com. April 11, 2005.

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• It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula. That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions for these are our issues, not nature's.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Writing, Issues, Ethical Questions

  "Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Unenchanted Evening", p. 39, 1993.

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• There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

  Norm MacDonald

  Art, I Like You, Kind

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Distance, Squares, Gravity

  Quoted in Popular Astronomy, Vol. 56 (1948), pp. 189 - 190, 1691.

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• Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Humorous, Two, Roots

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  Hans Eysenck

  Recovery, Rate, Psychotherapy

  Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge

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