#proportion

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. ↗

— Michael Korda

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I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. ↗

— Pete Townshend

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Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs. ↗

— Henry Villard

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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion. ↗

— Max Weber

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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined. ↗

— David Ricardo

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One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion. ↗

— Eli Whitney

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