#portion

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#burden #coast #devastating #disproportionate #gulf

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

#age #doing #everybody #gives #great

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#always #anybody #drink #else #example

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#based #believe #change #economic #economic system

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#employed #every #labor #mental #pleasure

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#great qualities #humor #majority #overwhelming #overwhelming majority

Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years. ↗

— James Roosevelt

#contributions #employees #employers #funded #know

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#experience #men #proportion #their #wise

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education. ↗

— Nigel Short

#britain #british #comes #compulsory #education

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. ↗

— Orlando Gibbons

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