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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.


William Blake


#beautiful #eyes #filled #grapes #guinea

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.


Orlando Bloom


#failure #fiasco #mythic #proportions #simply

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.


Elizabeth Bowen


#first #importance #must #out #proportion

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


Robert A. Dahl


#electoral #popular #proportion #require #votes

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.


William Blake


#fettered #fetters #flourish #human #human race

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.


William Bligh


#application #considering #her #i #much

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.


Dwight D. Eisenhower


#complex #find #first #first things #get

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.


Larry Elder


#benefit #better #connected #disproportionately #elite

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.


Dorothy Fields


#far #field #great #i #i do






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