Portion Quotes

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The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show… — Alexis de Tocqueville
He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for other's good, is a poor, frozen churl. — Joanna Baillie
The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their… — Gunther Blumentritt
Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of… — Frances Ford Seymour
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which… — Lord Chesterfield
Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion… — Howard Carter
The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of… — Arthur David Ritchie
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the… — Bernardino Ramazzini
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are… — Mary Midgley
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they… — Edmund Burke
Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision,… — John Szarkowski
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of… — James Madison
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in… — Gustave de Molinari
A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite. — Epicurus
One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right… — Jane Smiley
Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of… — Marcus Aurelius
There is no portion of our time that is our time, and the rest God's; there is no portion of money that is our money,… — Adolphe Monod
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of… — Aristotle
[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and… — George Washington
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result… — James Madison

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