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• The number of licorice gumballs you get out of a gumball machine increases in direct proportion to how much you hate licorice.
• Objectivity increases in direct proportion to the distance from the problem.
• Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy
• Barber's Laws of Backpacking 1) The integral of the gravitational potential taken around any loop trail you choose to hike always comes out positive.
  2) Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure....
• Getting along with your relatives increases in direct proportion with the distance you stay away from them.