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• Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Population, Savages

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.127, University of Michigan Press

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• One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.

  Janet Yellen

  Judging, Way, Fundamentals

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• The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

  Spencer Abraham

  School, America, Students

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• It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

  Benjamin Graham

  Earning, Investing, Nonsensical

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• Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.

  Benjamin Graham

  Past, Average, Years

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.120, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system.

  Paul Doughty Bartlett

  Ions, Weight, Difficulty

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• The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.

  Susan Sontag

  Book, Literature, May

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• The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically wrong: forcing some people to support others. The Democrats favor the indefinite expansion of the welfare state, perpetually increasing the ratio of force to freedom in society.

  Joseph Sobran

  People, Support, Expansion

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• The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Character, Greatness, Choices

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “Memoirs of celebrated characters”, p.157

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• I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

  David Dreman

  Book, Yield, Cash Flow

  "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

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• Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

  B. J. Fogg

  Technology, Simple, Simplicity

  B.J. Fogg (2003). “Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do”, p.33, Morgan Kaufmann

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• Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point. Eventually their growth rate can diminish as results revert towards normal. Maybe not in all cases, but often enough to make a long-term bet. Bottom line: I wouldn't want to get caught in a rush for the exit, much less get left behind. Only when big growth stocks fall into the dumper from time to time am I inclined to pick them up - and even then, only in moderation.

  John Neff

  Fall, Rising Prices, Names

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• If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be really too weak to consider at all and the human interest would be entirely lost.

  Howard Pyle

  Ideas, Two, Would Be

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• Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction . . . The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Years, Healthy

  Charles Darwin (2012). “The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the 'Beagle': Introduction by Richard Dawkins”, p.599, Everyman's Library

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• To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in the streets could not be controlled by a green light or a red light alone. It needs a green light and a red light as well. The ratio between retine and promine determines whether there is any motion, any growth, or not. Two different inclinations have to be there in readiness to make the cells proliferate.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Science, Light, Cells

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• The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in all desoxypentose nucleic acids examined thus far the molar ratios of total purines to total pyrimidines, and also of adenine to thymine and of guanine to cytosine, were not far from 1.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Dna, Acid, Results

  Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.93, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

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• It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental.

  Steven Weinberg

  People, Religion, Important

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• I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream.

  Mark Kirk

  Running, Dream, Past

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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• Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also
  patterns of communal interdependence.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Shapes, Patterns

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.330, University of Toronto Press

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• I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years.

  Neil Armstrong

  Future, Past, Years

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• Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1.

  Trevor Hoffman

  Worry, Balls, Velocity

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• I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Benefits, World, Clear

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.81, Grove Press

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• Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.

  Jim Butcher

  Loss, Animal, Years

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• An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Numbers, Perception

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• The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Past, English History, Two

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