Relatively Quotes
484 quotes by 433 authors
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Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?
— Katharine Whitehorn
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We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively…
— David Milne
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The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary.
— Omar Bongo
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Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.
— Sanjay Dutt
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I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting…
— David Wojnarowicz
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We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon…
— Paul Broca
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Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back…
— Joe Klein
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It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to…
— Peter Bart
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Consequential strangers help us stretch beyond the relatively rigid boxes that the people who have known us the longest - our family and close friends…
— Melinda Blau
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Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is "intense, sharply focused, and full bore. Members feel…
— Jean Lipman-Blumen
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Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can…
— Paul Krugman
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The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the army was a…
— Herbert Read
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Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that…
— Annie Jump Cannon
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Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a relatively small, primarily…
— Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
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...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If…
— Leslie Lamport
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Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in…
— Gene Roddenberry
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Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to…
— Peter Lynch
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This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better…
— Susan Dey
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