#proportion

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests. ↗

— Chester Irving Barnard

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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

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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

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The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. ↗

— Douglas Engelbart

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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ↗

— David Hume

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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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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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To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority. ↗

— William H. Seward

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