Relations Quotes
1008 quotes by 757 authors
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I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to…
— Victor Hugo
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Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of…
— Gough Whitlam
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.…
— Annie Dillard
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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ...
— Virginia Woolf
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The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the…
— Leon Uris
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Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.
— Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
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Grant began by expressing a hope that the war would soon be over, and Lee replied by stating that he had for some time been…
— Horace Porter
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I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
— William H. Gass
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The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a…
— Leon Trotsky
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The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other…
— Charlie Cook
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As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We…
— Vladimir Putin
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Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted…
— John Dewey
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No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property…
— James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde
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[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of…
— John C. Calhoun
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The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely…
— Peter Costello
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Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the…
— Margot Wallstrom
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Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network…
— Mary Parker Follett
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Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy…
— Khabibullo Abdusamatov
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It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine…
— Georges Cuvier
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