#proportion

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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Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality. ↗

— Sam Mendes

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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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

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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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

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Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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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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