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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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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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Deliver Me
deliver me...
from the fury, the noise,
and the roar of the wheel...
deliver me...
from my own insecurities,
my unconscious greed,
and my self driven fears.
deliver me...
from my conceptual understanding,
my limited knowledge,
and my worship of knowledge.
deliver me...
from all anger and hatred
in whatever disguise...
deliver me...
from being driven by
mouth and stomach unchecked,
from what i think i need.
deliver me..
from my countless mistakes,
and the excuses i make!
deliver me...
from any kind of pride
that closes the open hand!
deliver me...
from any sense of self
that would seperate and divide.
deliver me...
from laziness and tiredness,
from bitterness and lonliness.
deliver me...
from all forms of apathy,
and the want to possess...
deliver me...
and bring me to realize myself!
poem by Eric Cockrell
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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.
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
quote by Mark A. Clement
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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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I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.
quote by Eli Whitney
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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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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
quote by Mohandas Gandhi
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The fault is great in proportion to him who commits it.
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
quote by Will Rogers
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
quote by Titus Livius
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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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