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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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• In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Truth, Heroic, Embrace

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• Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Mean, Creating, Hands

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• Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

  John Quincy Adams

  Powerful, Numbers, Community

  John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”

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• A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  People, Atheism, Liberty

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1970). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Watchman, edited by L. Patton”

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• The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Freedom, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.268

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• While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Loneliness, Solitude, Half

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2013). “Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master”, p.516, Hachette UK

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• Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

  Rollo May

  Confused, Love Is, Independence

  Rollo May Ph.D. (1953). “Man's Search for Himself”

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• My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sacrifice, Law, Rewards

  Nikola Tesla (2007). “My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace.

  T. Harv Eker

  Secret, Marketplace, Paid

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• When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and have been through all time going on in such vast proportions,-when physicists study the laws of moisture, of clouds and storms, in past periods as well as in the present,-when, in short, geologists and zoologists are chemists and physicists, and vice versa,-then we shall learn more of the changes the world has undergone than is possible now that they are separately studied.

  Louis Agassiz

  Science, Past, Clouds

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• It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God had made one in the first creation.

  Isaac Newton

  God, Science, Space

  Isaac Newton (1962). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World”, p.638, Univ of California Press

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• The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.

  Michael Polanyi

  Trust, Knowledge, Science

  Michael Polanyi (2012). “Personal Knowledge”, p.221, Routledge

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• To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Benjamin Franklin, Albert H. Smyth (1905). “Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd”

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• The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.

  William Osler

  Science, Mazes, Development

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.118, Duke University Press

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• The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have proved by actual experiment that, in exact proportion to the force with which this machine works, heat is abstracted from the electrical battery. You see, therefore, that living force may be converted into heat, and that heat may be converted into living force, or its equivalent attraction through space.

  James Prescott Joule

  Life, Science, Iron

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• Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.

  Archimedes

  Writing, Science, Spheres

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• And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Government, Age

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.412, Wildside Press LLC

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• To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Country, Lying

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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