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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.


Charles Baudelaire


#beauty #because #contains #deformities #disproportion

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.


Joseph Butler


#act #disproportionate #happens #his #inclination

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.


Jimmy Carter


#african american #american #animosity #barack #barack obama

I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.


Robert Casey


#am #because #certain #democratic #disproportionate

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.


Charles Caleb Colton


#american #american revolution #apparent #consequences #events

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.


Jonathan Dimbleby


#exclude #fail #how #i #justify

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


#ballpark #discovered #game #i #inverse

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.


Julie Nixon Eisenhower


#because #blown #control #difference #first

The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them.


Sid Waddell


#chips #could #elvis #hear #portion

Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.


Donnie Wahlberg


#everything #fun #gone #group #into






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