#portion

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#die #fling #proportion #us #words

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #because #contains #deformities #disproportion

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#congress #course #does #each #genesis

I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome. ↗

— Robert Casey

#am #because #certain #democratic #disproportionate

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#liberating #long #out #proportion #scale

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#exclude #fail #how #i #justify

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#ballpark #discovered #game #i #inverse

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#certainty #developed #direction #each #ease

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#critics #disproportionate #female #harsh #how

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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