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This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.


Donny Osmond


#been #blown #children #confidant #far

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


#against #flux #freezes #giving #halts

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

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


#any #briefly #inverse #involved #item

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


C. Northcote Parkinson


#any #inverse #involved #item #proportion

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


James Cash Penney


#give #only #proportion #real #results

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.


Marcus V. Pollio


#architect #buildings #care #due #more

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.


Marcus V. Pollio


#beauty #being #dimensions #duly #each

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.


Marcus V. Pollio


#bodies #contain #corrupted #elements #greater

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


#definite #does #exactly #exist #function






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