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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.
The Masque of Hymen -
Remember this, that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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S a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951) -
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
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The effectiveness of a telephone conversation is in inverse proportion to the time spent on it.
New York Times Magazine Now Parkinsons Telephone Law, 12 April 1964 -
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
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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.
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The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
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The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
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There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.
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There is no excellent beauty that has not some strangeness in the proportion.
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