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Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear
Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.
I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I
Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.
The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.
If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.
Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.
A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.
Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system.
The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating empty calories.
In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for satisfaction as the current, more mysterious one.
Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.
The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.
I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.
I audition for stuff all the time, and what's weird about it is that one's success rate at auditioning doesn't really change. It's sort of at the same ratio of stuff you audition for to things you land.
One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.
Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.
That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing they grew up with. It's just been that way forever, so they don't see it.
I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.