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• But Loki's relations with Svadilfari were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt.

  Snorri Sturluson

  Birth, Colts

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• Senator Lugar will also travel to Libya for official meetings as a part of the president's initiative to move toward more normal relations reflecting that country's renunciation of terrorism and abandonment of its weapons of mass destruction and longer range missiles.

  Dana Perino

  Country, Moving, Mass Destruction

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• Keep good relations with the Grecians.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Bushism

  "Overseas visits cancelled to save Bush's blushes" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2000.

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• I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Perspective

  "On Revolution: A Conversation Between Grace Lee Boggs and Angela Davis". Interview with Grace Lee Boggs, www.radioproject.org. February 20, 2012.

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• We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies - and were important to the production of that object whether it’s our food or our clothes or our I-pads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Ipads, Clothes

  "Grace Lee Boggs in Conversation with Angela Davis". www.radioproject.org. February 20, 2012.

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• There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Two, People

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• The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Privilege, Economic

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.182, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

  Wallace Stegner

  Attention, Pay, Emotion

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the delicacy of our relations. It is this tenderness born out of a connection to place that fuels my writing. Writing becomes an act of compassion toward life, the life we so often refuse to see because if we look too closely or feel too deeply, there may be no end to our suffering. But words empower us, move us beyond our suffering, and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Moving, Writing

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “An Unspoken Hunger”, p.55, Vintage

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• We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Neighborhood

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• Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies which are free of sin? No, I don't. Do I think ours is, on balance, incomparably the most hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Thinking, Perfect, Hopeful

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• In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

  Angela Carter

  Relationship, Women, Schemas

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

  Enid Bagnold

  God, Dog, Animal

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• In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

  Simone Weil

  God, Views, Giving

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• The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

  Sigmund Freud

  God, Father, Special

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.171, Routledge

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• The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

  John Updike

  Reality, Self, Guarantees That

  John Updike (1989). “Self-consciousness: memoirs”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Opportunity, Years

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.163, Yale University Press

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• Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Team, Book, Home

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• I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.

  Mike Quade

  Media, Office, People

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• I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the subject as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Simple, Reality, Views

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• Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels  on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Believe, Men

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book One, Chapter V, 1840.

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• It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Healing, Technique

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• A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

  Charles Lamb

  Family, Irrelevance, Poor

  'Last Essays of Elia' (1833) 'Poor Relations'

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• In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

  Angela Merkel

  Responsibility, Europe, Political

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.

  Sigmund Freud

  Horse, Powerful, Goal

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. Lecture 31 : The Anatomy of the Mental Personality". 1932.

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