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
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
William C. Bryant
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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 enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Jim Harrison
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons
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People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.
John Anderson
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The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Denis Waitley
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There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
Mark Rydell
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau
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