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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
Alan Moore / Writer
Imagination
Inverse
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What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .
Nancy Leveson / Computer Scientist
Inverse
Software
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There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
William F. Buckley, Jr. / Author
Relationship
Independence
Inverse
Reliance
Self
Self Reliance
States
Between
State
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson / Naval Historian
Inverse
Involved
Proportion
Agenda
Item
Spent
Sum
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous Huxley / Writer
Quality
Behavior
Human Beings
Inverse
Involved
Literature
Moral
Moral Behavior
Numbers
Beings
Number
Ratio
Varies
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There doesn't seem to be a relationship between budget and comedy. In fact, it might be inverse.
Kyle Gass / Musician
Inverse
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My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox / Actor
Change
Happiness
Inspirational
Motivational
Acceptance
Direct
Expectations
Grows
Inverse
Proportion
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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley / Writer
Country
Dignity
Importance
Increase
Inverse
Office
Sea
Held
Ratio
Tends
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There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.
Marsha Blackburn / United States Representative
Inverse
Scope
Size
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I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.
David Weinberger / Author
Giving Up
Inverse
Succeed
Campaign
Lesson
Web
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The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
Charles Edward Montague / Journalist
Distance
Inverse
Proportion
Duties
Front Line
Medals
Officer
Square
Varies
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People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
Robyn Hitchcock / Singer-Songwriter
Bigger
Groups
Inverse
Numbers
People
Proportion
Smarter
Tend
Tends
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There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
Hans Eysenck / Psychologist
Correlation
Inverse
Psychotherapy
Rate
Recovery
Appears
Smaller
Thus
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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.
C. Northcote Parkinson / Naval Historian
Agendas
Inverse
Involved
Law
Mean
Proportion
Triviality
Agenda
Item
Spent
Stated
Sum
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I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
Bill Veeck / Promoter
Knowledge
Baseball
Games
Inverse
Moving
Proportion
Seats
Ballpark
Game
Discovered
Price
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Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.
Charles Kennedy / British Politician
Election
Gravity
Inverse
Argued
Back Up
Soon
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I kind of miss the hatchet days of Mr. Fairchild at 'WWD', when they really took no prisoners and there was sort of outrageous favoritism and its inverse.
Hamish Bowles / Journalist
Inverse
Outrageous
Miss
Mr
Prisoners
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There's been a kind of inverse snobbery about culture. I get the feeling some people would look at Shakespeare and say, that's a bit too intimidating for working-class people.
Munira Mirza /
Intimidating
Inverse
Snobbery
Working Class
Look Culture People
Shakespeare
Some People
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I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like Dickens or George Eliot comes along to prove the opposite.
Howard Jacobson / Author
Dickens
Inverse
Proportion
Opposite
Occasionally
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A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it's the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the - the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.
Kenneth Lonergan / Playwright
Amusing
Circumstances
Inverse
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There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.
Lena Headey / Actress
Genius
Inverse
Looks
Monsters
Relation
Talent
Ugly
Charlize Theron
Herself
Monster
Perceived
Suddenly
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'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
G. Willow Wilson / Writer
Identity
Inverse
Landscape
Apart
Forcing
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For people that are degenerates, if you've spent so much time feeling a certain way, it's actually uncomfortable to feel like a winner. The familiarity of losing is, in an inverse way, comforting. At least you know where you stand.
Jason Gedrick /
Comforting
Familiarity
Inverse
Losing
Uncomfortable
Time People Way
Time People Feel
Certain Way
So Much Time
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So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it's the inverse, because we get to be the centre of attention, looked up and down, dressed up for premieres all the time. The pull isn't quite as great.
Natalie Dormer / Film Actress
Wedding
Centre
Inverse
Up And Down
Time Great Day
Dressed
Little Girls
Pull
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I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.
Alan Moore / Writer
Imagination
Bother
Inverse
Theory
Lots
Developed
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'Memorial Day' is about 'spring break' girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It's also about how we forcefully exported that culture and then pretended to not know what we were doing.
Josh Fox / Film Director
Break
Inverse
Memorial
Puritanism
Spring
Coin
Pretended
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In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well your current business is going, whereas there actually should be an inverse relationship: when things are going worse, you should do more research.
Alan Kay / Computer Scientist
Inverse
Commercial
Current
Whereas
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When I first got started in this whole world of online connecting, we were combating this antiquated stereotype of who used online dating, and we really set out to make it popular with millennials. What I find to be so fascinating now is, I'm seeing an inverse in that trend.
Whitney Wolfe Herd /
Dating
Connecting
Fascinating
Inverse
Millennials
Stereotype
Antiquated
Trend
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People always related to President Bush, but in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, his numbers collapsed because people didn't feel like he handled those properly. Obama is the inverse. He was elected because he was an extraordinary guy, but the fact that he isn't ordinary has turned out to be politically damaging.
Nicolle Wallace / White House Communications Director
Aftermath
Extraordinary
Hurricane Katrina
Inverse
Iraq War
Numbers
Ordinary
President Bush
Related
War Always People
Bush
Collapsed
Damaging
Elected
Handled
Hurricane
Ordinary Guy
Properly
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