“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.”
Source: Computerworld 25th Anniversary edition, June 22, 1992, p 43, https://books.google.com/books?id=eiRpHBklEHQC&pg=RA1-PA42&lpg=RA1-PA42&dq=computerworld+%2B+a+person+matures+embarrassment&source=bl&ots=bMx50Sem4y&sig=hzsMesVv-vntfgEfrroBc0YrorQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi93rKcucDJAhVL22MKHTBvCDAQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=computerworld%20%2B%20a%20person%20matures%20embarrassment&f=false
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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois
Variant: A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Source: Walden
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“A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.”
Et pro virtutum habitu quilibet et liber est, et, quatenus est liber, eatenus virtutibus pollet.
John of Salisbury Policraticus
Bk. 7, ch. 25
Policraticus (1159)
“The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.”
Jerry Pournelle book Lucifer's Hammer
Lucifer's Hammer (1985)
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint
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Clayton M. Christensen (1952–2020) Mormon academic
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2000s
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
1960s, What Has Happened to America? (1967)
Context: There can be no right to revolt in this society; no right to demonstrate outside the law, and, in Lincoln's words, 'no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law'. In a civilized nation no man can excuse his crime against the person or property of another by claiming that he, too, has been a victim of injustice. To tolerate that is to invite anarchy.