Relation Quotes

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Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological… — Rachel Carson
When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends,… — Frederick Lenz
Our beliefs about ourselves in relation to the world around us are the roots of our values, and our values determine not only our immediate… — Henry Stapp
We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence,… — Vladimir Lenin
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people. — Vladimir Lenin
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age. — John Cotton
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things? — Owen Barfield
Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to wholeâ€¦â€¦. â€¦skew… — Charles Jencks
Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... Deep individualism cannot… — Philip Rieff
Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely lipstick cost control, more for… — Ezekiel Emanuel
Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes, later,… — Criss Jami
Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything… — Henry David Thoreau
True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station. — Henry David Thoreau
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of… — Marcus Aurelius
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. — Baron de Montesquieu
Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and… — John F. Kennedy
There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which… — Marcus Aurelius
My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one. — Honore de Balzac

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