Best Relative Thoughts
551 Relative quotes by 470 unique authors
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I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a…
— T Bone Burnett
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Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel…
— Audre Lorde
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Now is the moment in the timetable of the Lord to carry the gospel farther than it has ever been carried before.... Many a person…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in…
— Mary Blakely
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Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources; many opportunities for…
— J. Richard Hackman
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When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity,…
— Noam Chomsky
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All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power…
— Willard Gaylin
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It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much…
— John Quiggin
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Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the…
— P D Ouspensky
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I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.
— Raoul Wallenberg
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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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My experience to date has been that change, particularly relative to business, rarely happens in a revolutionary way. That isn't to say there are not…
— Jeffrey Hollender
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Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by…
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
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I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills…
— Unknown Author
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A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides…
— Joseph Sobran
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The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth,…
— Malaclypse the Younger
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THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT.…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent…
— Javier Perez de Cuellar
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When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to…
— Dale Carnegie
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare…
— Leon Trotsky
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Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the…
— Shonda Rhimes
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And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going 'You know…
— Robin Williams
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