Top Proportion Quotes
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
Eli Whitney
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
George H. Mead
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
Will Rogers
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Mercy Otis Warren
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
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Carter G. Woodson 
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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 
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.
Clyde Tombaugh
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I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.
Dorothy Fields
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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
John Boyd Orr
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Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.
Sam Mendes
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The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
Armistead Maupin
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
Isaac Mayer Wise
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