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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.


Honore de Balzac


#degree #good #ground #like #love

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.


Leon Battista Alberti


#adjustment #beauty #cannot #change #harmony

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.


Madeleine Albright


#bureaucracy #cold #cold war #elephant #grown

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.


William Allingham


#attain #been #could #disproportionate #gravity

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.


John Anderson


#australia #course #depend #easily #exports

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.


Mikhail Bakunin


#any #conscious #details #developments #grasp

I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other.


Judi Dench


#because #believe #business #especially #everything

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.


Orlando Bloom


#failure #fiasco #mythic #proportions #simply

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.


Lincoln Ellsworth


#determination #discouragements #earth #face #father

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.


Philip Emeagwali


#american men #developing #epidemic #every #hiv






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