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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.
• The cost of any action increases in direct proportion to the number of approvals required to take it.
• Getting along with your relatives increases in direct proportion with the distance you stay away from them.
• The weight of your pack increases in direct proportion to the amount of food you consume from it.
  If you run out of food, the pack weight goes on increasing anyway. -- Milt Barbe...
• Marge: You know what? I'm going to vote No on 24. Lisa
  Mom, you're the greatest! ... Can I have this licorice?...
• Objectivity increases in direct proportion to the distance from the problem.
• 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....
• Licorice is the liver of candy. -- Michael O'Donoghue