#proportion

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

— Ben Jonson

#just #life #may #measures #perfect

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#draws #himself #hindered #man #outward

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#crime #itself #out #proportion #should

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it. ↗

— Daniel Dae Kim

#amount #been #body #disproportionate #done

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#rarely #reputation #virtue

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#best #care #children #disease #disproportionately

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy. ↗

— Peter Singer

#anywhere #calling #democracy #dominated #elections

I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#burdens #carrying #declaration #equal #equal rights

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#discontent #exact #her #increases #proportion

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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