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“Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.”

Body Water Loses Virtue Greater Balance Elements Property Proportion

Book:The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

“One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.”

Able Reading Effort Greater Reader Activity Range Proportion

Author:Mortimer Adler

“Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.”

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the Surfaces of small Planets than in those of great ones in proportion to their bulk, and small Bodies are agitated much more by electric attraction than great ones; so the smallness of the Rays of Light may contribute very much to the power of the Agent by which they are refracted.”

May Body Light Greater Planets Stronger Surface Attraction Agents Proportion Rays Gravity Electric Magnet Great Ones Smallness Rays Of Light

Book:Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. ...

Source: Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. ...

“The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.”

Art Use Used Purpose Fall Names Justice Greater Pride Guilt Profound Passing Passings Painter Sensuality Vain Proportion Rome Bells Provoking Spain Venice Decoration Leonardo Raphael Milan

Author:John Ruskin

“For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is still much greater than Whites. Today, there is less overt racism, but the economic injustices create an "institutional racism" which exists even while more Blacks are in high places, such as Condoleeza Rice in Bush's Administration and Obama running for President.”

“I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.”

Years Helping Loses Support Democracy Greater Years Ago Vote Majority Active Proportion Opposition Minorities Margins

Author:Gloria Steinem

“In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them.”

Persons Individual Existence Greater Development Mass Individuality Valuable Proportion Units Fullness Fullness Of Life

Book:On Liberty: Representative Government ; The Subjection of Women : Three Essays

Source: On Liberty: Representative Government ; The Subjection of Women : Three Essays

“There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.”

Has Beens Leadership Greater Kings Queens Proportion Royalty Monarchy Good Kings

Book:Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

“The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.”

Mind Humans Mean Greater Gains Resources Labor Certainty Rely Proportion Human Mind Deprived Exertion

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.”

Should Littles House Difficult Poor Rich Greater Advantage Luxury Vanity Occasions Proportion Expenses Principal Magnificent Taxation Revenue Unreasonable Progressive Taxation

Author:Adam Smith

“An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.”

Thinking Heaven Greater Sea Objects Elements Resistance Desert Proportion Pyramids

Book:The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Source: The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

“Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.”

Country House Greater Subjects Taste Photography Hills Charm Proportion Portraits Strengthening Portrait Photography

Author:William Henry Jackson