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• So even these stages of progression, whether it's your career or whatever, you get somewhere, but then it always brings a new host of issues that are relative dissatisfactions to a certain degree. I think it was a great philosopher who once said, "Mo' money, mo' problems."

  Steve Zissis

  Thinking, Careers, Issues

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• You can't relate to an absolute or it wouldn't be absolute, it would be relative. On an intellectual level, that's easy. However, you hear theologians in the theistic traditions talk about absolute God, and I saw God, or God spoke; speaking, being seen, these are all relational things. So what is absolute about such a being, wouldn't actually be absolute.

  Robert Thurman

  Intellectual, Would Be, Levels

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• There are really three players: 'absolutists', for whom it is possible to describe reality as it anyway is; 'constructivists' or 'humanists', for whom there is nothing beyond a world that is relative to human interests and conceptual schemes; and 'ineffabilists', like myself, for whom any describable world indeed exists 'only in relation to man', as Heidegger put it, but for whom, as well, there is an ineffable realm 'beyond the human'.

  David E. Cooper

  Player, Reality, Men

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.

  Tavares Strachan

  Self, Ideas, Desert

  "Tavares Strachan's Desert Explosion". Interview with Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

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• Sometimes a lack of perspective can bring its challenges relative to someone who has a little bit more.

  Nick Viall

  Perspective, Challenges, Littles

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I am a free man but only partially so relative to other people in society. Why do I say "partially free"? Because there is only one country in the world that denies me entrance because of who my father was and that is the United States.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Country, Father, Men

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• Over the period from 1988 to 2005, the income share of the top five percent has grown by about 3.5 percent of global household income, and the shares of all the other groups have diminished. The greatest relative reduction was in the bottom quarter, which lost about one third of its share of global household income, declining from 1.155 to 0.775 percent, and now is even more marginalized.

  Thomas Pogge

  Groups, Income, Share

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Poverty persists, essentially, because the people at the bottom - the bottom quarter and also the bottom half - see the gains from the rising global average income wiped out by severe declines in their relative share.

  Thomas Pogge

  Average, People, Income

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.

  Thomas Pogge

  Population, World, Today

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Mother Earth is the spirit of the Earth. Amaterasu is the spirit of the Sun, that is, the feminine aspect of the spirit of the Sun. The Sun is a male, but everything is polarized, everything has a male and a female part. And she is the feminine part of light. Relative to the Earth it is more of a male energy, but she is the energy that comes and moves through Mother Earth, to bring consciousness and life.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Mother, Moving, Light

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• It's very clear that Vladimir Putin has decided that he will eliminate his opponents and anyone who stands up for democracy and freedom. And he does so with relative impunity.

  John McCain

  Democracy, Doe, Opponents

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Inspiration comes from books, music, films and of course, living memories and life experiences, my own and those of people I've known or met; the casual glimpse from the stranger or the life and death of the close relative; to breathe, for a moment, a Chekhovian air, it's all song and ice.

  Suhayl Saadi

  Song, Memories, Inspiration

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.

  Anne Waldman

  Blood, America, Identity

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Everything is up for grabs, everything is relative. Except nothing is if you are serious about it because the moment you become serious about answering a question you have a stake in it. Relatively goes out of the window, in one sense because you're putting your a** out there - you are depending on the answer, you need the answer.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Serious, Window, Moments

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• There are many important elements to being a parent. A lot of people don't have fathers but they might have someone in their life who's a good male influence and support. There's no cookie-cutter way of raising children and no family is the same, but the most important thing is that children are loved, supported and cared for, whether it's coming from a relative or a friend or a grandfather or a good school teacher. Anyone. Children just need good examples and mentoring to teach them and show them how to do things.

  Liv Tyler

  Teacher, Children, Father

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• I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in marriages and financial autonomy. And if the richest women don't have financial autonomy, what does it mean for the rest of us? That's all.

  Wednesday Martin

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• This neglect of a very important Brazilian writer is, in my view, the result of Brazil's relative isolation from what metropolitan tastemakers. If João Gilberto Noll were writing in French or German or even Russian, it's likely he'd be more broadly translated.

  Adam Morris

  Writing, Important, Isolation

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No matter to what degree China opens up to the outside world and admits foreign capital, its relative magnitude will be small and it can't affect our system of socialist public ownership of the means of production.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mean, Degrees, World

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to have a healthy Congress in which the two parties are debating, disagreeing, but also occasionally working together to pass legislation.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Two, Government

  "NPR's Exit Interview With President Obama". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org.

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• An absolute being would be irrelevant to the world, as it couldn't create it. Any action, or causal process that would involve them, would make them relational. An absolute is the opposite of relative. So that's easy to understand, however, even though we understand that intellectually, which is very important to do, you don't transform yourself completely, yet.

  Robert Thurman

  Opposites, Important, Would Be

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away

  Bill W.

  Wisdom, Real, Lying

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• There are some terrific resources on how to find individual purpose but relative resources on how to discover purpose and apply to an organization. My challenge was to show organizations how they could unlock the purpose of their organizations and put it to good use for employees to apply to their own jobs. The net effect is to help individuals, teams and organizations to optimize performance by understanding how to use purpose for good intention.

  John Baldoni

  Team, Understanding, Challenges

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• Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

  Cornel West

  Summer, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Cornel West INTERVIEW: Don’t Appoint Larry Summers As An Economic Adviser And Tell Me You’re Progressive". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2009.

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• It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Clothes, Fog

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.23, Graphic Arts Books

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• My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.

  Amy Tan

  Book, Want, My Favorite

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