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• If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hate, Love Is

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.125, Commodius Vicus

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• In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows.
  Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Powerful, Men

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.226, Commodius Vicus

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• People are falling in love because a certain man has a certain type of nose. People are falling in love with fragments! Nobody is bothered about the totality of the person -- and it is a vast thing. The nose does not count for much --- after two days you won't look at it at all. Or the color, or the shape, or the proportion of the body -- all these things are very minor. The real thing is the total functioning of the person, and that can be experienced only when you live together.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Falling In Love, Real

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• The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religion, Ornaments, Would Be

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.20, 谷月社

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• There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

  Alan Bennett

  Mean, Science, Space

  Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.212, Faber & Faber

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• ... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Gratitude, Truth

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.80, Souvenir Press

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• Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.

  Paul de Rapin

  Strength, Obstacles, Increase

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• Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Parent

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.110, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Ideas, Roots

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• "Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible."

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Believe, Philosophical, History

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• Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon, there would have been no growth. It had to come to the centre where it had both the things in proper proportions to grow. In the same way a human being has to work out that you keep a moderation and a balance and understand not to go to extremes of anything. That balance you learn when you love someone.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Mother, Wisdom

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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. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed on him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

  John Jay Chapman

  Character, Men, Ideas

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• The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Faith, Gratitude, Money

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.73, e-artnow

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• What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Names, Numbers

  John Ruskin (2015). “Unto This Last”, p.244, John Ruskin

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• Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.

  Thomas Merton

  Best Love, Love Is, Perfect

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.139, Shambhala Publications

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• Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

  Zero Mostel

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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• People have judged you; you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny. And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments, and you are throwing those judgments on other people. And this game has become out of proportion. The whole humanity is suffering from it. If you want to get out of it, the first thing is: Don't judge yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Games, Ideas, Judging

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• In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Generations, Evolution

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• Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

  William Hazlitt

  Perseverance, Passion, Ambition

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.62

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• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization.

  Nikola Tesla

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Law

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.79, eKitap Projesi

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• Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Heaven, Bears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.425

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• The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.

  Brian Tracy

  Commitment, Successful, Romantic Love

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• It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Principles, Human Nature

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.328

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• It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it; will be less attached to what he holds by a momentary or uncertain title, than to what he enjoys by a durable or certain title; and, of course, will be willing to risk more for the sake of the one, than for the sake of the other.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Risk, Principles

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1826). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution”, p.399

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• The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and the resulting ratios in the three age groups in which a large number of patients were interviewed (ages 45 to 74) are averaged, the relative risks become 6, 19, 26, 49, and 65 when the number of cigarettes smoked a day are 3, 10, 20, 35, and, say, 60-that is, the mid-points of each smoking group. In other words, on the admittedly speculative assumptions we have made, the risk seems to vary in approximately simple proportion with the amount smoked.

  Richard Doll

  Cancer, Taken, Science

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