#portion

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

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Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

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Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer. ↗

— John Hall

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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. ↗

— Horace

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