#proportion

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion. ↗

— Jim Fowler

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Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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The primary factor is proportions. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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Our work is directly proportional to the distances our dreams travel across, as force (power) is a constant factor ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

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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

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Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship. ↗

— Linda Chavez

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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

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo. ↗

— Derek Walcott

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