- Laws
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disproportionate Quotes
On scale, fairness, and things out of balance.
These disproportionate quotes include a historical argument about population and representation and a more personal count of years lost sitting in traffic. See our Government quotes for more.
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- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.
- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had opposed the Jet-Etihad FDI arrangement on the ground of the disproportionate share of airspace given to Etihad, which is against the interest of domestic passenger traffic and also against national interest.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each week on all platforms, and nobody seems to want to tell us. If a disproportionate number of any show's viewers watch in alternative ways, then, under the current system, that show may not appear to be as strong as it actually is.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our economic model allows us to invest a disproportionate amount in our food costs. We have a very efficient system: customers go through a single line, the people who serve you are the ones who make the food, and our menu board is not cluttered.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the middle of 'Bleed Red' coming out, a huge disproportionate majority of people in radio came to us and asked if they could have 'Cost of Livin' as a single. There was even talk behind closed doors about pulling 'Bleed Red' because they had caught wind and heard 'Cost of Livin'.' We went with that.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heads of the K.G.B. were deeply anti-Semitic and saw in Israel and world Jewry 'a danger which is only second to the main enemy, the United States.' The K.G.B. was intent on destabilizing Israel, totally disproportionate to the country's strength or influence.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illinois is home to a disproportionate share of Dreamers and would suffer a significant economic blow should they be compelled to leave.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, the whole thing - it's hard work.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
- Government Officials
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- Nov 07, 2020