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proportions
«The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows»
Author: Charles M. de Talleyrand
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
gigantic, precedes, proportions, pygmies, Pygmy
«A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Belief,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
proportions
«The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.»
Author: Sarah Bernhardt
(Actress)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
absolute truth, bodily, proportions, theatre, The Absolute, The Theatre, Truth The
«I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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adjust, adjusted, adjusting, adjusts, disregard, disregarded, disregarding, disregards, ecstasies, ecstasy, enter, in ordinary, live in, measures, myself, ordinary, proportioned, proportions, refuse, Relationships, sense, tempo, The sense
«Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.»
Author: Coco Chanel
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Architecture,
Fashion
| Keywords:
architecture, proportions
«Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| Keywords:
frequency, gracious, medicines, physician, prescribes, prescription, prescriptions, proportions, Trials
«We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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and so on, depict, depicted, depicting, depicts, for example, inhuman, landscape, proportions, reduced, relation to, repel, repelled, repelling, repels, struck
«People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.»
Author: Stendhal
| About:
People
| Keywords:
dazzle, dazzled, dazzles, dazzling, extreme, intimacy, in evidence, politeness, proportions, regain, regaining, self-conscious, varnish, varnished
«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 problems to manageable proportions»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Elderly,
Mankind,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
ancient, complex, human process, manageable, proportions, reduces, rule of