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Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway. ↗

— Howard Carter

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

— James Cash Penney

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The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ago #any #battalion #battle #conducted

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

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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. ↗