#proportion

No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#continent #country #descent #estimated #europe

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

#devil #farthest #feed #fullest #general

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population. ↗

— Ernst Engel

#best #equal #family #food #greater

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

#aim #between #captured #contradiction #distinguish

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

#agreement #between #building #each #harmony

That body is most attractive which is well proportioned: a gangly right arm balanced by a left stump, a leg suffering from elephantitis by a meatless femur bone, a tapered waist by a bulbous head. One should be so ordered that all who see this person will say: ‘This is a figure ruled by harmony. ↗

— Bauvard

#bodies #funny #humor #proportion #funny

The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. "Yes, I see, dear; it's about halfway between," Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#business

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ↗

— David Hume

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I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make. ↗

— Eli Whitney

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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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