#portion

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working. ↗

— Mary Ann Mobley

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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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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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We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

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Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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