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• We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.

  Nick Saban

  Determination, Successful, Being Successful

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• Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Choices

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• We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.

  Albert Pike

  Land, Looks, Levels

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

  Nathan Goldstein

  Distance, Mean, Artist

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• Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Spiritual, Pain, Hardship

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• Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

  Richard Whately

  Medicine, Knowing, Wholesomeness

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.200

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• I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Order, Space, Said

  Third letter to Samuel Clarke, February 25, 1716.

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• ... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.

  Warren Buffett

  Should Have, Decision, Important

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• The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.

  Seth Klarman

  Cost, Investing, Good Times

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• There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is "right"? Can you be truly objective in these matters? Or are "right" and "wrong" simply descriptions overlaid on events and circumstances by you, out of your decision about them?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Opposites

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.144, Penguin

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• Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?

  Al Pacino

  Misunderstood, Kind, Failing

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

  Al Pacino

  Character, Responsibility, Scripts

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Relative to the power that movie stars have, and producers and directors, I would say that even the most respected screenwriters have very little power in Hollywood. I don't think it's in the nature of the writer's profession to go after that power. Writers spend their time alone, hallucinating, writing, making these things up, while these other people are out schmoozing, making connections, meeting each other. They are trotting the corridors of power and making sure they've put their own imprints in it. And they're promoting themselves and their images, as they should.

  Robert Towne

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We are continuing to look for ways that we can do something that's good for both of us. Good for both of us being the Cowboys relative to relief as to our cap management and good for him that would maybe be some pluses for him on his contract.

  Jerry Jones

  Cowboy, Way, Relief

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• The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.

  Alan Menken

  Writing, Levels, Firsts

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The middle class in the rich countries is where the political game is being played. They are voting in elections in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany. They are working people in the upper part of the global income distribution. They might on average be happy that the Chinese are doing well, but they are not happy that the Chinese are doing well relative to them.

  Branko Milanovic

  Country, People, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is some rationale backing Kim Jong-un's actions, which are survival - survival for his regime, survival for his country. And he has watched, I think, what has happened around the world relative to nations that possess nuclear capabilities and the leverage they have, and seen that having the nuclear card in your pocket results in a lot of deterrence capability. The lessons that we learned out of Libya giving up its nukes and Ukraine giving up its nukes is, unfortunately, if you have nukes, never give them up.

  Allan Nairn

  Country, Giving Up, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I didn't realize how different our band's senses of melody actually were. I would write a part that just made perfect sense to me, but for them, it was mind-boggling. Likewise, they could play stuff with relative ease that I never could have. If there was something lost in translation melodically, it wouldn't work at all - we'd just be 17 people in a giant room staring awkwardly at each other. When that happened, I'd go home, figure out what was wrong, fix it, and then return to smooth sailing.

  Zach Condon

  Writing, Home, Perfect

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Older, you know, is obviously relative. You're older if there's somebody younger than you in the room, and you're younger if there's someone older in the room.

  Julianne Moore

  Rooms, Knows, Ifs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Young children from Guatemala who are adopted into the United States gain considerable height relative to the standards. So the height difference cannot be genetic.

  Richard H. Steckel

  Children, Adopted

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I find the surface of a photograph a thing of beauty in and of itself, and it is this surface that makes a photograph unique relative to other two-dimensional media.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Unique, Two

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• For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the church spire across the field) due to parallax. The view from the train was not the view from the horse. It compressed more motifs into the same time. Conversely, it left less time in which to dwell on any one thing.

  Robert Hughes

  Horse, Moving, Past

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• Therefore the solid body of the earth is reasonably considered as being the largest relative to those moving against it and as remaining unmoved in any direction by the force of the very small weights, and as it were absorbing their fall. And if it had some one common movement, the same as that of the other weights, it would clearly leave them all behind because of its much greater magnitude. And the animals and other weights would be left hanging in the air, and the earth would very quickly fallout of the heavens. Merely to conceive such things makes them appear ridiculous.

  Ptolemy

  Moving, Fall, Science

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• Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

  Peter Kreeft

  Absolutism, Want, Morality

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• In terms of our region, what we need to ensure is that the rise of China [is] conducted in a manner that does not disturb the security and the relative harmony of the region upon which China's prosperity depends. Now - now, that requires careful diplomacy, it requires balancing.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Doe, Needs, Rise Of China

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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