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Balance measured in music, politics, and passing charm.

These quotes use proportion as a way to measure very different things, from the harmonic and mathematical proportion that shapes music to the share of charter school teachers who lack certification. Related ideas continue under Balance quotes.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Him
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Nov 07, 2020

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Quotes by Vitruvius

Electoral
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Nov 07, 2020

Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.

Quotes by Robert A. Dahl

Passing
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Nov 07, 2020

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

Quotes by Marcel Proust

Nov 07, 2020

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

Quotes by Maggie Gallagher

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

Quotes by Iain Duncan Smith

Excellent
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Nov 07, 2020

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Quotes by Francis Bacon

Fling
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Nov 07, 2020

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Quotes by Anais Nin

One political line calls for electoral votes allocated in direct proportion to the popular vote, while another wryly ties a woman's charm to how quickly she passes by. See also Comparison quotes.

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