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• The citizen is influenced by principle in direct proportion to his distance from the political situation.
  -- Milton Rakove...
• 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....
• Objectivity increases in direct proportion to the distance from the problem.
• Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavou
  and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress - in direct proportion to the importance of his original contribution....
• 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 sun rises over the earth: The image of Progress.
  Thus the superior man himself Brightens his bright virtue...