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• Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

  Thomas Malthus

  Increase, Subsistence

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define
  worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating
  empty calories.

  Bruce Ames

  Country, Essentials, Eating

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• The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.

  Ptolemy

  Stars, Distance, Lying

  Ptolemy (1984). “Ptolemy's Almagest”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

  Dave Eggers

  Goal, Trying, Attention

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• It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

  Nat Friedman

  Software, Higher, Connectors

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• In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each
  is serving the others, seeking one another's good,
  and bearing one another's burdens.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Burden, Seeking

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Perseverance, Men, Endurance

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• Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

  William Blake

  Atheism, Statistics, Reason

  William Blake, Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi (1998). “The Early Illuminated Books”, p.26, Princeton University Press

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• When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.

  Humphry Davy

  Two, Numbers, Elements

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• The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

  Alberto Moravia

  Writing, Literacy, Constant

  Quoted in Observer (London), 14 Oct. 1979

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• Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies

  Marc Andreessen

  Hate, Technology, All Time Low

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• In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Country, Slavery, Protection

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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• I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

  Yuri Milner

  Years, Zuckerberg, Entrepreneur

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• The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Self, Liberty

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.458

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• I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

  Charles Grodin

  People, Actors, Dramatic

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• Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Knowledge, Increase, Diminish

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• Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Ill Health, Worry

  Source: www.mhpbooks.com

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• Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

  Earl Nightingale

  Rewards In Life, Rewards, Direct

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• The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Goodness, Punning, Wit

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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• The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?

  Daryl Hannah

  Jobs, Doe, World

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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• Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

  Robert Hass

  Thinking, Doubt, Poet

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I

  Ian Curtis

  Groups, Factories, Certain

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• If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which the equality of conditions is increased.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Art, Men, Together

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.134

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• At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

  John L. Casti

  Reality, Debt, World

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• The fun you get from golf is in direct ratio to the effort you don't put into it.

  Bob Allen

  Funny, Golf, Effort

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