#proportion

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

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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species? ↗

— Asa Gray

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In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time. ↗

— William Hague

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People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#get #groups #intelligence #into #inverse

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

— Victor Hugo

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In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food. ↗

— Joseph Hume

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

— Cass Sunstein

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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

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. ↗

— James Dean

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