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• I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Numbers, Rich

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• Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.

  Edward Howard Griggs

  Reality, Life Is, Intensity

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• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

  William C. Bryant

  Strength, Children, Adversity

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• I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

  Eli Whitney

  Arms

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• Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  "What Hemingway Would Think of the Internet", July 2, 2011.

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• A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Hurt

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Learning, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

  Adam Smith

  Progressive Taxation, Rich, Economics

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.355

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• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Mad, Mathematics, Dangerous

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

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• Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Heart

  George Washington, Thomas J. Fleming (1967). “Affectionately Yours, George Washington: A Self-portrait in Letters of Friendship”, New York : Norton

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• Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Justice, Facts, Should

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.18, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence of anybody who might release adrenaline. The best situation I know for an easy birth is when there is nobody else around than an experienced, motherly and silent midwife who does not behave like a guide or an observer.

  Michel Odent

  Numbers, People, Silence

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  The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

  Tom Landry

  Life, Football, Commitment

  Tom Landry, Gregg A. Lewis (1990). “Tom Landry: an autobiography”, Zondervan

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• Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Water, Balance, Elements

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.17

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• Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

  Paul Bert

  Religion, Morality, March

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• Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

  William Blake

  Race, Poetry, Flourishing

  Jerusalem "To the Public" plate 1 (1815)

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• Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

  Margaret Fuller

  Dream, Reality, Waking

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.112, tredition

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• Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Weed, Marijuana, Degrees

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• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Soul, Flesh

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.193, Tara Publishing

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• Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

  Douglas Horton

  Never Change, Direct, Dissatisfaction

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• I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Moving, Games

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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• In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

  Charles Sturt

  Crime, Wales, Colony

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.63

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• One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

  Eli Whitney

  Fashion, Giving, Tools

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• The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

  John F. Kerry

  Crime, Should, Consequence

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