#portion

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#arises #experience #irrelevant #larger #perhaps

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education. ↗

— Nigel Short

#britain #british #comes #compulsory #education

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#everybody #exploit #incidents #now #out

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#dozen #early #half #i #i write

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. ↗

— Socrates

#contented #depart #equal #everyone #heap

There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity. ↗

— Gray Davis

#america #been #california #contribute #disproportionately

The primary factor is proportions. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#factor #primary #proportions

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#absolute truth #beauty #bodily #chief #consists

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#our #portion #predominate #will

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. ↗