For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
[Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so… — Henry James Copy Share Image
In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. — Theodor Schwenk Copy Share Image
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended,… — John Gorrie Copy Share Image
Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion. — Jim Fowler Copy Share Image
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