#portion

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor. ↗

— Larry Elder

#benefit #better #connected #disproportionately #elite

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#first #importance #must #out #proportion

Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#companies #comprised #fund #held #insurance

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#apply #direct #direct proportion #effort #proportion

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

#good #how #knowing #lie #portion

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#comforting #disproportion #only #reflect #seems

The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#biological #bomb #borders #bring #could

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#body #century #crowd #cuts #distributes

As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#associated #budget #city #costs #districts

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult. ↗

— Emma Watson

#because #biggest #constantly #difficult #feel