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• 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.
• 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 citizen is influenced by principle in direct proportion to his distance from the political situation.
  -- Milton Rakove...
• Getting along with your relatives increases in direct proportion with the distance you stay away from them.
• An expert, aside from being a former spurt, is a person who knows more and more about less and less until he knows practically nothing about anything.
  The more likely a person is to be known as an expert is in direct ratio to the distance that person is from home, which is also known as the law of real catastrophe...
• The distance you have to park from your apartment increases in proportion to the weight of the packages you are carrying.