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• It is inconceivable to me that an ethical relation to land can exist without love, respect, and admiration for land, and a high regard for its value. By value, I of course mean something far broader than mere economic value; I mean value in the philosophical sense.

  Aldo Leopold

  Philosophical, Mean, Land

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.223, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Men, Expression

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• Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Couple, Trying

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• The relation between husband and wife should turn into a love of the heart untouched by desire.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Husband, Heart

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• In Europe, where human relations like clothes are supposed to last, one's got to be wearable. In France one has to be interesting, in Italy pleasant, in England one has to fit.

  Sybille Bedford

  Travel, Europe, Clothes

  Sybille Bedford (1986). “A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey”, Plume Books

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• Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Memories, Groups, Different

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• Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

  Bertrand Russell

  Envy, Intellectual, Vices

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.50, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Country, Thinking, Roots

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• Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Home, Imperfect World, Normal

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.9, 谷月社

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• The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Philosophical, Government, People

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• No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Love, Law, Looks

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.60, Gibbs Smith

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• In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

  Terry Eagleton

  Stress, Mean, Humanity

  "The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Marriage, Religious, Men

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.29, Cosimo Classics

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• In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, Race, Law

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• It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

  Evan Davis

  Effectiveness, Too Much, Wonder

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• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  Talcott Parsons

  Doe, Facts, States

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

  Asvaghosa

  Character, Mean, Practice

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• As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.

  Xi Jinping

  Mutual Benefit, Growth, United States

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• I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.

  John Bercow

  Fashion, Pride, People

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• Republicans have never been good at public relations.

  Tammy Bruce

  Republican, Public Relations

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• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  Vida Blue

  Baseball, Winning, Men

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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• To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.

  Merold Westphal

  Tasks, Existentialism, Assuming

  Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.35, Penn State Press

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• I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

  Hugo Chavez

  Government, Wish, United States

  "Hugo Chavez prefers Obama", www.politico.com. September 30, 2012.

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• I started in the industry in Public Relations, Quality Assurance, Information Systems and furniture moving. I tried my hand in design and haven’t looked back. I’m fond of hackysack, racquetball, BBQ grilling, hanging out with my wife and friends

  Dan Miller

  Moving, Bbq, Hands

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• Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

  Vince Cable

  Home, Growth, Income

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