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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.


Barbara Mikulski


#age #american #american women #disability #disproportionately

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.


John Stuart Mill


#been #chief #chief danger #contained #courage

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.


John Stuart Mill


#actions #happiness #intended #pain #pleasure

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.


Andrew Motion


#amusing #beautiful #comic #deeply #even

Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.


Grace Napolitano


#ethnic #ethnic groups #groups #injured #job

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

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.


Jerry Pournelle


#directly proportional #importance #improbability #information #proportional

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.


Will Rogers


#hurts #proportion #remark #truth






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