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• To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. The present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a Hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on Danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).

  Robert Graves

  War, Knowledge, Civilization

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• The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Thinking, Animal

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• In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Animal, Ethics

  "The Alps and Pyrenees".

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• The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the world. All genuine art seeks the spirit. Even when art wishes to represent the ugly, the disagreeable, it is concerned, not with the sensory - disagreeable as such, but with the spiritual which proclaims its nature in the midst of unpleasantness. If the spiritual shines through the ugly, even the ugly becomes beautiful. In art it is upon a relation to the spiritual that beauty depends.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Art

  Rudolf Steiner (1964). “The arts and their mission”

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• The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed.

  Edward Bernays

  Mean, People, Three

  Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.3, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

  Confucius

  Blow, Government, Wind

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

  Claude Bernard

  Independence, Body, Environment

  "Leçons sur les Phénomènes de la Vie Communs aux Animaux et aux Végétaux". Book by Claude Bernard, 1878.

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• The ultimate aim of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it.

  Dan Smoot

  World, Socialist, Aim

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• French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Friendship, Strong, Real

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• It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.

  Chanakya

  Spring, Lying, Elephants

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• He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Wealth

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• We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Equal, Universe

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.4, Gibbs Smith

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• Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.

  Russell Hoban

  Self, Long, Age

  Russell Hoban (1999). “A Russell Hoban omnibus”, Indiana Univ Pr

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• To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

  Elaine Scarry

  Errors, Kind, Made

  Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew.

  Mark Forsyth

  Beach, Zoos, Wine

  Mark Forsyth (2013). “The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language”, p.9, Penguin

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• The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

  Norman Potter

  Design, Firsts, Modern

  Norman Potter (2002). “What Is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages”, Hyphen Press

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• Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Dream, Expression, Evil

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• U.S.-China relations doesn't need another lawyer.

  Abigail Washburn

  Needs, Lawyer, China

  "Singing songs to connect America and China" By Abigail Washburn, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views.

  Mark Tooley

  Israel, Views, Christ

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• Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that it has any practical application. . . . The techniques are in widespread use by media, advertising and public relations agencies, industrial and commercial corporations, and by the Federal government itself.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Believe, Government, Media

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• A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

  Ian Harris

  Thoughtful, Government, Consideration

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• The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Average

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• Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

  Ellen G. White

  Law, Web Of Life, Selfishness

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• We save the honor of Jesus when we restore His Person to life from the state of inanity to which the apologists have reduced it, and give it once more a living relation to history, which it certainly possessed.

  Bruno Bauer

  Jesus, Giving, Honor

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• The IKEA spirit is strong and living reality. Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our relations with each others, our suppliers and our customers.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Strong, Reality, Ikea

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