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• Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy
• Getting along with your relatives increases in direct proportion with the distance you stay away from them.
• The distance you have to park from your apartment increases in proportion to the weight of the packages you are carrying.
• The citizen is influenced by principle in direct proportion to his distance from the political situation.
  -- Milton Rakove...
• The cost of any action increases in direct proportion to the number of approvals required to take it.
• Happiness is in direct proportion to the distance from the home office.
  Contradictory Corollary: The diner who is furthest from the kitchen is a nervous eater....
• The importance of the man and his job, in that relative order, rises in direct proportion to the distance separating his audience from his home office.