The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
People are, by and large, quite poor at judging correct absolute values but are astute about determining relative values. Psychologists call this… — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Another relative?" Valek asked. A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother's uncle's wife's third cousin." --Valek and… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together,… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
“Reason and logic are a force for unity. People can rally around the objective, absolute Truth. All of these are undermined by… — Joe Dixon Copy Share Image
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the relative world, merit is very important. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience. — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow… — Bill W Copy Share Image
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The horse is so honest.... they live in the moment. And what they do, whether they need to protect themselves or whether… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a… — William Ames Copy Share Image
I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
It has become clear that America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or… — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
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