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A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.
My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.
We're a trading nation. We need to have trade, we rely on it, a vast proportion of our jobs in our country rely on trade agreements.
There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
The parts of a film should be in proportion to the whole, and a long film pasted together out of quick little scenes makes me dizzy.
As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Wisdom would dictate that a sense of proportion, empathy and balance should drive how the Workers' Party approaches Singapore politics.
It's important that you love and respect your body, understand what it needs, and accordingly give everything in appropriate proportion.
Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.
Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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.
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.
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
The more attention you give to your negative feelings, the more they grow, so I think things just start to blow totally out of proportion.
Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each
I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you'll look great in anything.
I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.
My goal is always to bring a sense of balance, symmetry, and proportion to each individual face. The brows are an essential starting point.
Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]
I feel like I'm extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that's a bit out of proportion. I guess that's why some people see me as strange.
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Your rewards, all the years of your life, will be in precise proportion to your service. You are here to serve others, just as they serve you.