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
John Rowland 
Henry David Thoreau 
Vince Lombardi 
Dwight D. Eisenhower 
Charles Sturt 
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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden 
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Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.
John Hunter
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
Peter Singer
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake
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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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