A Quote by George William Curtis

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

George William Curtis

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Ancestry Distance Increases Pride Ratio

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George William Curtis
American - Author
February 24, 1824 - August 31, 1892

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.

Thomas Malthus

[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Malthus

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

Angela Merkel

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Thomas Malthus

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Malthus

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Thomas Carlyle

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

Thomas Carlyle

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

Thomas Malthus

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

William Tyler

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

Benjamin Franklin

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

John F. Kerry

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