#proportion

Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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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

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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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

— Robert A. Dahl

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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

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Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes. ↗

— Douglas Horton

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The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill. ↗

— David Keene

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Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. ↗

— Michael Korda

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