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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

Portions Business Outstanding Management
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When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.

Time Life Back Give
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The size of a socialite’s backside is indirectly proportional to the size of her brain.

Size Brain Backside Back
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In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

Great Proportion Degree Happiness
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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Powerful Powerless Gaints Paradox
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Always Far History Judging
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The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Achieve Apply Direct Effort
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us

Amount Directly Disagreeable Feel
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Decisive Feeling Passion Politician
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All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'

Analysis Assumption Being Conduct
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Afford Alone Man Number
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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Comforting Arithmetical Disproportion Only
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Beauties Just Life May
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Exists Liberty Proportion Restraint
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A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Architecture Body Designed Dress
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Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Architecture Fashion Matter Proportions
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Afflictions Distress Everyone Feel
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It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Basis Citizen Defense Down
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Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.

Bear Church Church And State Declare
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I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

Am Away Begun Entrusted
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Common Contented Depart Equal
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Always Arise Experience Irrelevant
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

According Between Desires Every
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Acts Bend Change Each
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Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

Classmates Each Gave Law
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I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

Abnormal Because Biggest Constantly
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Age Equal Hesitation Increases
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Taste Irritating Direct Friends
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I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

Never Been Very Prolific
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In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.

Best Depends Desirable Feed
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The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

Difficulty Directly First How
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Human Process First Wisdom
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Unfortunately Regretted Fact Temper
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A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Wise Man Proportions Belief
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Against Beauty Flux Giving
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

Among Body Century Crowd
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves
Nature Fault Punishment Deserves
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It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Happened Ages World Labored
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Gift Greatest GreatestGift Portion
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We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.

Always Earn Exact Idly
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The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.

Accept America Appointments Black
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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.

Chosen Commitment Direct Endeavor
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Disaster Failure Fiasco Mythic
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Between Difference Disaster Failure
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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
Woman's discontent Increases Exact proportion Development
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Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Absolutely Another Any Certain
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I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.
Anger Around Blanket Me
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I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

African African American American Animosity
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I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

Actually Again Been Broadcasting
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The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

Vigor Our spiritual life Bible Thought
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