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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am. ↗

— John Hunter

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There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. ↗

— Thomas Sprat

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Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand. ↗

— Craig Bruce

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We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ↗

— Peter Cooper

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I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

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I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ↗

— Bill Veeck

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