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• Things That Don't Matter When You've Lived the Same Day Six Times and Died on at Least Two of Them: Lunch meats and their relative coolness.

  Lauren Oliver

  Two, Lunch, Meat

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• Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.

  Gary Hirshberg

  Games, Leader, Entrepreneur

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• If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

  Dick Cavett

  Giving, Bed, Care

  "People With Depression Commit Suicide". Big think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The outsourcing gurus have been driving the theory, and they are saying everybody ought always to do this. But it is really contingent on where you are on the spectrum from "not good enough" to "more than good enough," relative to each tier of the market.

  Clayton Christensen

  Not Good Enough, Driving, Guru

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and live in relative - or absolute - comfort. In the water, that situation can get turned on its head, though. Local kids learn to surf, know the breaks, and take most or all of the best waves, fuming turistas be damned.

  William Finnegan

  Country, Fun, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Vain Art of the Fugue was the only one of my novels to be met with relative public recognition: it was nominated for the Prix Médicis by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Milan Kundera pocketed the prize instead and the public never clamored to buy it.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Art, Recognition, Vain

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we look elsewhere. Eastern literature is still the poor relative that everyone wants to forget, the Cinderella who hasn't (yet) found her prince.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  East, Looks, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school textbooks, a topic which is another chapter in my book. The Alamo is managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a group whose members can claim a relative who was living in Texas during the revolution. The fight over mismanagement of the Alamo has been going on for years.

  Gail Collins

  Daughter, Book, School

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Instance

  "Joy in the Morning".

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• Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.

  Ian Mortimer

  Justice, Age, Century

  Ian Mortimer (2009). “The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

  Charles Bukowski

  Insanity, Norm

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• Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

  Alan Moore

  Voice, Silence, Generations

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• Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

  Meg Rosoff

  Fall, Emotional, Blood

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• I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Believe, Men

  Garth Stein (2011). “Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

  Alain de Botton

  Desire, May, Littles

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.43, Vintage

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• We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.

  R. D. Laing

  Civilization, Driven, Destruction

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• A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

  Roger Scruton

  Believe, Asking, Truth Is

  Roger Scruton (2012). “Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey”, p.12, A&C Black

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• Mallory dropped her head to the steering wheel. "Look, I'm mad at you, okay? This isn't about me. I know my painful memories are relative. My life is good. I'm lucky. This isn't about how poor little Mallory has had it so hard. I'm not falling apart or anything." He stroked a hand down her back. "Of course you're not. You're just holding the steering wheel up with your head for a minute, that's all.

  Jill Shalvis

  Memories, Fall, Life Is Good

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Jan 26, 2013

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• One cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria. These, like everything else, change according to historical circumstances, the character of a society, the time and subjective points of view.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Character, Reflection, Views

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• You want a blood relative to lead your army? Get Marcie. She likes ordering people around. She'll be a natural.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Army, Blood, People

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.843, Simon and Schuster

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• As you're implying, there's a new technology that can look even deeper into that brick and we can start getting into a level where it breaks down so that the brick isn't even there, but obviously it is because Moe can hit Curly on the head with it. It's quite bizarre and all relative.

  Brad Warner

  Technology, Looks, Levels

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wish, Desire, Want

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• To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Soul, Mind

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.40, Beacon Press

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• Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

  Glen Cook

  Cutting, Evil, Taste

  Glen Cook (1992). “The Black Company: The First Novel of 'The Chronicles of The Black Company'”, p.281, Macmillan

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• Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Looks, Want, Causes

  Randa Abdel-Fattah (2014). “Does My Head Look Big in This?”, p.66, Scholastic UK

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