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• The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.
  -- Milton Rakove...
• 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
• 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.
• Getting along with your relatives increases in direct proportion with the distance you stay away from them.
• 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 effectiveness of a politician varies in inverse proportion to his commitment to principle.
  -- Sam Shaffe...