#portion

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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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

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

— James Cash Penney

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The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species? ↗

— Asa Gray

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In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions. ↗

— Elias Hicks

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