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"Fatality is doing the right things at the wrong time!!!!" »Siddharth Astir
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"proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect." »English Proverb
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"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone." »Henry David Thoreau
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"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them." »Titus Livius
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"Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it." »Paul De Rapin
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"For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." »Francis Bacon
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"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." »Anais Nin
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"When you see yourself in proportion -- as you're bound to do when you get some sense -- then you see how much greater what is real is than anything you can put down." »Eudora Welty
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"The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity." »Marcel Proust
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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." »John Galsworthy
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"Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking." »Margaret Fuller
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"Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion." »Aristotle
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"The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem." »Harvey Mindess
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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
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"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." »Vince Lombardi
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"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast." »Albert Cooper
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"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt." »Thomas Merton
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"No one should be judge in his own case." »Publilius Syrus
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"Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it." »Orison Swett Marden
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"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." »Richard Buckminster Fuller
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"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion." »William Cullen Bryant
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"In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark." »Nicholson Baker
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." »Mortimer Adler
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"Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity." »Barbara Stanwyck
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"What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question" »Gertrude Stein
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