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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Evidence
Proportions
His
Belief
An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
Kathi Appelt
Depression
Great
Desperate
Long
Nation
Great Depression
Monumental
Crisis
Entire
Seemed
Proportions
Known
Essentials
Standing
Even
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.
Monica Raymund
Gay
Change
Transgender
Lesbian
Teens
Bisexual
Must
Proportions
Bullied
Disgusting
Epidemic
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Art
Time
Quality
Architecture
Problem
Nothing
Cost
Fact
Through
Proportions
Throughout
Almost
Most
Reached
Always
Been
Question
Authentic
Same
In Fact
Them
Themselves
Among
Things
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
Philip Treacy
Mathematics
Architecture
Face
Hat
Wearing
Hats
Proportions
Like
Balancing
Your
Designing
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
William Blake
Beautiful
Eyes
Money
Worn
Sun
Guinea
More
Miser
Proportions
Bag
Than
Use
Grapes
Filled
Vine
Children in urban communities suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome in higher proportions than veterans, and they need therapeutic outlets, which arts and drama has proven to provide.
Aja Brown
Veterans
Stress
Drama
Syndrome
Outlets
Higher
Proportions
Proven
Provide
Than
Arts
Children
Which
Urban
Communities
Therapeutic
Suffer
Need
I don't have the proportions for 'hood hot.'
Amanda Seales
Hood
Proportions
Hot
I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.
Antony Gormley
Think
Related
Apprehension
Way
Scale
About
Proportion
Proportions
Human
Human Beings
Mean
Us
Body
Beings
Things
The primary factor is proportions.
Arne Jacobsen
Design
Factor
Proportions
Primary
I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.
Art Garfunkel
Think
Proportions
Precise
Games
Play
Numbers
And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Death
Saying
Good
Me
Trust
Important
Sick
Proportions
Message
Important Message
Because
Am
Opponent
Hear
Proving
Trust Me
Sends
Going
Bury
Republicans
Landslide
Tonight
Too often, ill-informed rhetoric has led to emotional hysteria that obfuscates solid evidence regarding the real problems faced by poor people and, in overwhelmingly great proportions, by black people.
Carl Hart
Great
People
Problems
Black
Too
Evidence
Solid
Faced
Proportions
Emotional
Hysteria
Real
Led
Real Problems
Often
Rhetoric
Regarding
Poor
Poor People
One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.
Craig Brown
Life
Money
Sense
Tricks
Proportions
Equal
Roughly
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
Derek Walcott
Me
Citizen
Before
Pedestrian
Athens
City
Echo
Proportions
Ideal
Became
How
Been
Cultural
Walker
Commercial
May
Human
Where
Spain
Port
Look, we are a rock group. But you should see all those things in perspective. People tend to blow up everything into ridiculous proportions. And then the fun is gone real soon.
Donnie Wahlberg
You
People
Perspective
Gone
Group
Everything
Those
See
Tend
Proportions
Soon
Look
Rock
Real
Rock Group
Up
Blow
Then
Should
Fun
Ridiculous
Things
I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.
Gerhard Richter
Painting
Changed
Paperwork
Structured
Proportions
Hours
Always
Been
Eight
Now
I have always considered that my collection must have an international flair so it can be at the service of the European public. Or to people in Asia. Yes, there are tiny little alterations I notice in the proportions of the outfits, but fundamentally, the collection is that way.
Giorgio Armani
Service
People
Considered
Way
Collection
Must
Outfits
Proportions
Alteration
Always
Yes
Flair
Tiny
Public
Little
Asia
Notice
European
International
Fundamentally
The Big Five is a competition played in the University of Pennsylvania's Palestra among five Philadelphia-area Division I schools: Saint Joseph's, La Salle, Penn, Temple, and Villanova. 'The Big Five' was immensely popular, and rivalries quickly grew to intense proportions.
Jack Ramsay
Competition
Big
Immensely
Penn
Pennsylvania
Temple
Proportions
Rivalries
Division
Joseph
Schools
Saint
La
Five
Quickly
Intense
Grew
Popular
Among
Played
University
I love all these things where proportions have been changed and altered.
Jeremy Scott
Love
Changed
Proportions
Altered
Been
Where
Things
If Franschhoek has a fault, it is in the lavish refurbishment of wine farms and estates which has reached absurd proportions. Some, like Graf Delaire Estate, are brand new, with jewellery shops, indoor streams, and very high-end lodges for rent at prices not many South Africans can afford.
Justin Cartwright
Fault
Wine
Lavish
Some
High-End
Proportions
Prices
Absurd
Indoor
New
Like
Reached
Rent
South
Very
Brand
Brand New
Afford
Shops
African
Estate
Estates
Which
Farms
Many
Streams
Jewellery
I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.
Kiki Smith
Change
Animal
Feathers
Animals
Hair
Fur
Drawing
Proportions
Liked
Got
Geometry
Lot
Same
Just
Then
Next
Body
Consciousness
Images
I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.
Mario Testino
Beautiful
Art
History
Training
Light
Weather
Cold
Furniture
Eye
Fine
Fine Art
London
Intuitively
About
Color
Proportions
Look
React
Because
Real
Just
The History Of
Works
Gray
'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.
Nigel Lythgoe
Home
Me
Proportions
Like
Became
Always
Idol
American
American Idol
Epic
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
Orlando Bloom
Success
Failure
Proportions
Mythic
Simply
Disaster
Fiasco
To be able to transform societies and economies to low-carbon ones was an amazing challenge. To influence and to facilitate such an important transformation in the world would be like witnessing something of industrial revolution proportions.
Patricia Espinosa
World
Amazing
Challenge
Important
Revolution
Transformation
Would
Would-Be
Able
Something
Facilitate
Proportions
Economies
Like
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Witnessing
Influence
Transform
Societies
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