Relation Quotes

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Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a… — Sarah Manguso
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has… — Guy Debord
But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention… — Karl Marx
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. — Francois Arago
The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years,… — Jonah Goldberg
TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the… — Ambrose Bierce
We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor… — Carter Heyward
It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can… — Baruch Spinoza
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and… — Learned Hand
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like… — E. M. Forster
Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations,… — Matt Groening
In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted… — John Updike
We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. — Thomas Carlyle
I did not have textual relations with that server. — Hillary Clinton
Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations. — Li Peng
Gratitude is like credit; it is the backbone of our relations; frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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