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Proportion Quotes

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

"Zaha Hadid and United Nude Unveil the nOVa Shoe" by Becky Quintal, www.archdaily.com. July 5, 2013.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.

Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (2008). “Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir”, p.36, Hachette UK

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Claude Adrien Helvétius (1807). “De l'esprit; or, Essays on the mind. Transl. To Which are now prefixed, a life of the author and prefatory strictures by W. Mudford”, p.24

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.

"Home Commentary Paul B. Farrell GET EMAIL ALERTS Top hedge fund mixes Ayn Rand, behavioral psych" by Paul B. Farrell, www.marketwatch.com. September 27, 2011.

The primary factor is proportions.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2475, e-artnow

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria