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• I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, Scientist, Enough

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• Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Suits You, Looks, Shapes

  "Five things I know about style: Zooey Deschanel". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational Life, Priorities, Firsts

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• One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Men, Epidemics, Hiv

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• I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

  Jim Harrison

  Book, Care, Enjoy

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• Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

  Paris Hilton

  Hurt, Feelings, You Hurt Me

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• Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Oasis, Boston, People

  Julia Ward Howe (2004). “The Hermaphrodite”, p.21, U of Nebraska Press

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• In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

  Ben Jonson

  Life, Summer, June

  'To the Immortal Memory...of...Sir Lucius Carey and Sir H. Morison' (1640)

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• Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.

  James Lovelock

  Country, War, Numbers

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• Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

  John Stuart Mill

  Pain, Action, Absence

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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• Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

  Steven Morrissey

  Thinking, Giving, Mad

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Cake, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

  Henri Nouwen

  Powerful, Anxiety, Despair

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• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Beauty, Nature, Giving

  FaceBook post by Camille Paglia from Nov 13, 2013

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• The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Mean, Law, Agendas

  Parkinson's Law ch. 3 (1957)

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• There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

  Oren Peli

  Fire, People, Giving

  "Scare-meister Oren Peli Talks Horror Movies, Spoilers and What's Next on The River!". Interview with Damian Holbrook, www.tvguide.com. March 6, 2012.

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• The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

  Marcel Proust

  Literature, Swiftness, Charm

  "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time".

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• The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Country, Taken, Levels

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• Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Thinking, People, Great Love

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• Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Nature, Punishment, Faults

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• I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Worry, Democracy

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• A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Jobs, Occupation, Lows

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• By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Children, Home, Parent

  "Iain Duncan Smith outlines yardsticks for success of social justice policy" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

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• The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Men, Shadow, Reputation

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• I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

  Pete Townshend

  Anger, Blur, Blanket

  "Won't get fooled again..." by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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