#portion

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#exclude #fail #how #i #justify

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#ballpark #discovered #game #i #inverse

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#certainty #developed #direction #each #ease

But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#boils #book #connections #day #down

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#because #blown #control #difference #first

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

#because #completely #either #going #healthy

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#bodily #brain #brain power #complicated #days

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#israelites #misfortune #proportion #russia #same

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#down #facing #going #graves #manufacturers

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#best #his #kindness #life #little