Proportion Quotes

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Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly... — Hardin B. Jones
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any… — Mahatma Gandhi
When a physician is called to a patient, he should decide on the diagnosis, then the prognosis, and then the treatment. ... Physicians must know… — Claude Bernard
The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not… — Fisher Ames
I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle… — Thomas Jefferson
Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And… — Donnie Wahlberg
And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion.… — John G. Rowland
Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn… — Felix Schelling
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in… — Charles Caleb Colton
If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They… — Virginia Woolf
Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little… — Auguste Rodin
The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions. — Masaru Emoto
The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses. — Lowell Thomas
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality… — Chester Barnard
A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person,… — Thomas Jefferson
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.… — James Madison
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as… — Claude Bernard
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To everyone wanting a safe, untroubled, comfortable life free from danger, stay away from Jesus. The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion… — David Platt
I wanted to combine science and photography in a sensible, unemotional way. Some peopleâ€™s ideas of scientific photography is just arty design, something pretty. That… — Berenice Abbott

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