Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
quote by H.L. Mencken
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Love is conditioned
Love for one is in proportion
To the influence you wield.
Concern for one is in proportion
To the identity you have.
Respect for one is in proportion
To the trust you have.
Don’t expect more than the due.
16.08.2006
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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.
quote by Ernst Engel
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Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
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Murphy's Constant
Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
quote by Emile M. Cioran
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Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The fault is great in proportion to him who commits it.
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
quote by Mohandas Gandhi
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
quote by Paris Hilton
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Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.
quote by Jim Fowler
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
quote by Titus Livius
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I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.
quote by Eli Whitney
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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
quote by Will Rogers
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
quote by Samuel Johnson
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