#portion

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

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I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#because #deeper #delve #harder #having

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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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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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. ↗

— Will Rogers

#hurts #proportion #remark #truth

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#differences #direct #direct proportion #friends #irritating

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#firm #flesh #grows #my own #own

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other. ↗

— George H. Mead

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