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  • Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

    - Aldous Leonard Huxley
      Beyond the Mexique Bay.

  • The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

    - Aldous Leonard Huxley
    Grey Eminence, ch.10.

  • Population, when unchecked, increases in geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in arithmetical ratio.

    -Thomas Robert Malthus
      An Essay on the Principle of Population.

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