#portion

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Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.


Alvar N. C. de Vaca


#although #days #field #fled #fruits

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.


Charles Caleb Colton


#american #american revolution #apparent #consequences #events

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.


Daniel Craig


#liberating #long #out #proportion #scale

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.


Hermann Ebbinghaus


#certainty #developed #direction #each #ease

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.


David Wilkerson


#believing #bomb #carry #city #fear

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.


William Wordsworth


#best #his #kindness #life #little

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.


William Wordsworth


#best #good #his #kindness #life

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.


Benjamin Franklin


#portion #rejoices #rich #who

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.


Pieter Zeeman


#directly proportional #displaced #displacement #electron #equilibrium

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#bad #belongs #contract #discover #doomed