Ratio of Americans who die from tobacco-related illnesses each year to the number who are murdered : 17:1
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Ratio of annual federal spending on Atlanta's homeless in the last five years to the amount spent this year : 1:6
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Notwithstanding the embargo, Cuba's achievements in social development are impressive given the size of its gross domestic product per capita, ... As the human development index of the United Nations makes clear year after year, Cuba should be the envy of many other nations ostensibly far richer.
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Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more 'Malinowski' the more compelling the book. No 'Malinowski,' and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.
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A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.
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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back
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Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.
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And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.
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The purpose of the increase is to maintain buying power. The amount of the increase is set by the U.S. Congress and it's based on Department of Labor statistics, in particular, the consumer price index.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
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If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.
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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
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Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is What do you like Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.
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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
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An index is a great leveller.
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The face is the index of the mind.
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