Best Proportional Sayings
112 Proportional quotes by 103 unique authors
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Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Feeling and thinking are directly proportional to each other and inseparable.
— Anuj
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In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.
— Philip Caputo
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The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.
— Mark Jason Dominus
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Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.
— John Updike
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Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.
— Roger Mahony
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Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
— Joseph de Maistre
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Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to…
— Peter Welch
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Many Americans do not realize that we could institute proportional representation for most elections in the U.S. without amending the Constitution. In helping to educate…
— John Anderson
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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…
— William Hague
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
— Leon Trotsky
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I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
— Benjamin Carson
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Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in.…
— Thomas A. Edison
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My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely…
— Beth Ditto
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The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
— Douglas Engelbart
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
— Oriana Fallaci
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict…
— Sydney J. Harris
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so…
— John Stuart Mill
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their…
— Ezra Pound
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Researchers from Britain's Keele University have found that swearing after an injury may help alleviate pain. Evidently, the pain that you feel is inversely proportional…
— Stephen Colbert
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The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
— Milan Kundera
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In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny…
— John Stuart Mill
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Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.
— Nelson DeMille
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The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.” – Chloe Traeger
— Jill Shalvis
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It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment…
— Harlan Coben
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