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1 " As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy. "
― Ayelet Waldman , Red Hook Road
2 " What do you mean by yuanfen?" She thought for a minute and replied, " It means: that apportionment of love which is destined for you in this world. "
3 " A less well known impact of immigrant populations is the increase that destination states gain in Congress where apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is calculated on the basis of a state's entire adult population regardless of legal status. And, because each state's electoral college vote is the sum of the number of its representatives in the House and its two senators, high immigration states play a larger role in presidential elections than they might if only adult citizens and legal aliens were counted in population surveys. "
― , The Struggle for Democracy
