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The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. ↗

— Tom Hopkins

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Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am. ↗

— John Hunter

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The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. ↗

— Paul Bert

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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good. ↗

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

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A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ↗

— Peter Cooper

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Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted. ↗

— Ray Dalio

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The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. ↗

— Friedrich List

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