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• Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

  Albert Camus

  Future, Perfect, Art And Culture

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.212, Vintage

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• If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

  Alexander Pope

  Business, Character, Men

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• The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

  Benito Mussolini

  Essence, Groups, Doctrine

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• It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Cousin

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• Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

  Mencius

  Evil, Negative, Goodness

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• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

  Chanakya

  Relationship, Adversity, Wife

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• The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

  Ken Wilber

  Arbitrary, Shifting, Truth Is

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• The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

  Jim Morrison

  Children, Parenting, Progress

  "College Students and Their Helicopter Parents: a Recipe for Stress" by Karl Gude, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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• It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

  George Nakashima

  Fighting, Design, Woodworking

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• It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much empirical evidence.

  John Quiggin

  Government, Care, Libertarian

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• If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.

  Joel Osteen

  Hurt, Holiday, Supportive

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• I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

  Herman Melville

  Beauty, Judging, Handsome

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1211, Delphi Classics

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• The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religion, Individual, Fellows

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.18

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• A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

  Socrates

  Emotional, Sound, Ethics

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• One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

  Aristotle

  Community, Citizens, Common

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.84, Aristotle

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• What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Giving, Balance, Looks

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1849). “Vanity fair. With illustr. by the author”, p.77

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• Light and dark are relative to one another like forward and backward steps.

  Shitou Xiqian

  Dark, Light, Unity

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• Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.

  Garrett Hardin

  Determined, Action, Compare

  Garrett James Hardin (1985). “Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent”, Penguin Group USA

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• Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.

  David Gerrold

  Determination, Velocity, Morality

  David Gerrold (2014). “Starhunt: A Star Wolf Novel”, p.82, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable

  Steven Erikson

  Ambition, Law, Humanity

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• A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.

  Rollo May

  Perspective, Historical, Facts

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• Failure is relative. Life is adventure. Everything has beauty.

  Debby Ryan

  Adventure, Life Is, Life Is An Adventure

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• Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

  Francis Crick

  Views, Order, Data

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• Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.

  Tim Ferriss

  Two, Dollars, Income

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• All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

  Sybille Bedford

  Wealth, Absence

  Sybille Bedford (2016). “A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey”, p.81, New York Review of Books

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