#portion

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

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

— Lowell Thomas

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We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#give #only #proportion #real #results

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#differences #direct #direct proportion #friends #irritating

He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

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