quotes about Ratios
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The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
-- Alberto MoraviaSource : Quoted in Observer (London), 14 Oct. 1979
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Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.
-- Arthur Ganson -
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
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Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.
-- Ben Bernanke -
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.
-- Carl Sagan -
I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.
-- Charles Grodin -
Marijuana, for example, won't help one determine the correct aspect ratio...
-- David Mamet -
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Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.
-- Earl Nightingale -
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in all desoxypentose nucleic acids examined thus far the molar ratios of total purines to total pyrimidines, and also of adenine to thymine and of guanine to cytosine, were not far from 1.
-- Erwin ChargaffSource : Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.93, Paul & Company Pub Consortium
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Work/Loaf Ratioâ€...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR†save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.
-- Gary Reilly -
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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
-- Gustave Courbet -
If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio.
-- Harvey MackaySource : FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Apr 11, 2012
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In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.
-- Henry Charles CareySource : Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365
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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]
-- Horace -
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In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure of portfolios from occurring. What they can do is keep the asset-equity ratio of banks within bounds by setting equity-absorption ratios for various types of assets. If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.
-- Hyman Minsky -
When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.
-- Jeff BaenaSource : "Why Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza's 'Life After Beth' Make Out Could Have Been Awkward". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, yahoo.com. August 7, 2014.
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If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear
-- Jim Rohn -
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
-- John Jay Chapman -
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...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.
-- Jon KrakauerSource : Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.48, Pan Macmillan
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The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
-- Joseph Gordon-Levitt -
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
-- Margaret Atwood -
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
-- Nat Friedman -
Among nonclassical ions the ratio of conceptual difficulty to molecular weight reaches a maximum with the cyclopropylcarbinyl-cyclobutyl system.
-- Paul Doughty Bartlett -
The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between the mass and the charge of the electron.
-- Pieter Zeeman -
The value of an ad is in inverse ratio to the number of times it has been used.
-- Raymond Rubicam -
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We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
-- Rob Sheffield -
I still gasp at the revealing lingo for weapons: erector launchers, thrust ratios; my teeth grind reflexively when Dubya sputters Eye-Rack and Eye-Ran have 'nookyular capabacity.
-- Robin Morgan -
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.
-- Spencer Abraham -
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Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio.
-- Swami Vivekananda -
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
-- Thomas de Quincey -
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
-- Thomas Malthus -
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.
-- Thomas MalthusSource : Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.5, University of Michigan Press
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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
-- Thomas MalthusSource : Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.127, University of Michigan Press
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You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.
-- Tom Baker -
Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1.
-- Trevor Hoffman -
A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.
-- William Safire -
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Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.
-- William ZinsserSource : William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.12, Harper Collins
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People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life.
-- Ziad K. Abdelnour -
In the very beginning I tried to actualise way too many ideas. The end result was not as healthy a ratio for satisfaction as the current, more mysterious one.
-- Howe Gelb -
A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.
-- Michael LeBoeuf -
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Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to one. It is just ridiculous. But sometimes if you can hit it just right and get everything out of the way, something will resonate on multiple levels.
-- Zoe Leonard -
The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating empty calories.
-- Bruce Ames