#portion

The primary factor is proportions. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

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What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#annihilate #been #capacity #colored #common

If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants. ↗

— Montel Williams

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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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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

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A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#good #how #knowing #lie #portion

Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. ↗

— Harry Johnston

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