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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.


William Osler


#absolute truth #aim #broken #content #must

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.


Camille Paglia


#against #flux #freezes #giving #halts

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.


Lowell Thomas


#credit #given #man #out #possesses

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.


Gene Tierney


#eliminating #followed #i #lean #living

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job.


David Petraeus


#ago #any #battalion #battle #conducted

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.


Marcus V. Pollio


#architect #buildings #care #due #more

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.


Marcus V. Pollio


#beauty #being #dimensions #duly #each

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.


Marcus V. Pollio


#bodies #contain #corrupted #elements #greater

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.


Will Rogers


#hurts #proportion #remark #truth

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.


George H. Mead


#each #face #other #proportion #qualities






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