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Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at the start of that dispute, will any longer be totally in the right or totally in the wrong. Such a point I believe, has been reached in this debate... Let us not equivocate. A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa.”

Believe Has Beens Matter Might I Believe Party Tragedy Debate Proportion Might Have Been Disputes Unfolding Unprecedented

Author:Nelson Mandela

“In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.”

“It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.”

People Persons Done Law Used Easy Liberty Degrees Benefits Independence Slavery Property Oppression Proportion Legislators Plunder Personal Independence

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.”

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“Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.”

Men Mind Passion Virtue Pursue Chains Proportion Willingness Appetite Restraint License

Author:Edmund Burke

“The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to 'refund' taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of American households to pay income taxes, lifting the proportion that need not do so to a majority of the voting population.”

“For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - despite being overweight by conventional standards.”

Way Long Body Bigs Used Guy Interesting Style Standards Legs Sexy Statements Despite Proportion Tall Conventional Most Interesting Interesting Things Overweight Big Guys Long Legs

Author:Boy George

“When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds.”

“Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.”

Men Lasts He Man Machines Giants Proportion Toys Reverse

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

“All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.”

Proportion Dull

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things

“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.”

War Felt Influence International Dare Proportion Treaties Renunciation

Book:Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.”

Whole Suffering Emotion Taken Source Hero Scene Essentials Tragedy Add Wide Pity Chiefs Proportion Tragic Ingredients Woe Exceptional Calamity Vary Extending

Author:A. C. Bradley

“It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.”

Differences Focus Impossible Genius Perceive Proportion

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.”

Men Matter Moving Animal Military Weight Importance Affair Proportion Velocity

Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

“In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think.”

Thinking World Long Country States Bigs Government Running Dies Nations Higher Western Proportion Assets Long Runs Big Government Slipping Western World Crucible Keynes

Author:Mark Steyn

“I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.”

Doe Life Is Fun Cost Standards Tricks Proportion Standards Of Living Cost Of Living

Author:Warren Buffett

“The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.”

Wish Foolish Proportion Wiser Wiser You

Book:Exotics and Retrospectives

Source: Exotics and Retrospectives

“In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to those who do choose. The Senate are still more disproportionate, and for long terms of irresponsibility. In the Executive, the Governor is entirely independent of the choice of the people, and of their control; his Council equally so, and at best but a fifth wheel to a wagon. In the Judiciary, the judges of the highest courts are dependent on none but themselves.”

Source: Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way

“[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.”

People World Humans Has Beens Age Lying Turns Names Objects Photography Mass Cameras Photograph Proportion Deceit Museums Multiple Merchandise

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.”

Culture Proportion Exception Nuts Secretary Extremist Bloggers

Author:Kenneth Clarke

“Nice teeth is a turn on for me. If you open your mouth and it looks like a battle of epic proportions, I don't like it.”

Ifs Looks Turns Nice Battle Mouths Teeth Proportion Epic Turn-on Nice Teeth

Author:Dane Cook

“I like to go to England, and I'll tell you why. I like to go to a country where I am considered the best-looking person. It's as simple as that. Hollywood, kind of a crushing ego blow - 'Hey Buddy Holly, you are so old, have you not perished in a plane crash?' But not in England, good God, not there. In England, God bless that dinky island, there it's, 'Good God, look at him. He has all his teeth and his ears are in proportion to his head.' I'm Brad bloody Pitt on that island.”

Looks Kind Persons Country Simple Ego Hollywood Ears England Blow Teeth Hey Planes Islands Crush Proportion Bless Bloody Crash Buddy God Bless Brad Good God Hollies Plane Crashes

Author:Greg Proops

“I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.”

Want Form Figures Shapes Abstract Proportion Not Interested Composition Luminous

Author:Ralph Gibson

“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

“As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.”

Grows Opinion Practice Speech Proportion Customs

Book:A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed, a History of the Language and an English Grammar

Source: A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed, a History of the Language and an English Grammar

“A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.”

Thinking Advice Politician Proportion Willingness Good Advice Inverse

Author:Patrick Caddell

“I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.”

Believe Done Values I Believe Common Race Succeed Proportion Indispensable Uncommon Common Man Common Things

Book:Up from Slavery

Source: Up from Slavery

“Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.”

Men Wealth Labor Accounts Proportion Acquire

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“Mr. Dalton's permanent reputation will rest upon his having discovered a simple principle, universally applicable to the facts of chemistry - in fixing the proportions in which bodies combine, and thus laying the foundation for future labors... his merits in this respect resemble those of Kepler in astronomy.”

Facts Body Simple Principles Labor Foundation Astronomy Reputation Permanent Merit Proportion Chemistry Fixing Kepler