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• Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Success, Arbitrary, Definitions

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• An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.

  Martin Feldstein

  Latin, Usa, America

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• I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to your desk and writing, when every closet is reorganized and you've called your oldest living relative twice in one day to see what she's up to and there isn't an unanswered e-mail left on your computer or you simply can't bear to answer another one and there is no dignity, not a drop left, in any further evasion of the task at hand, namely writing, well, you can always ask your dentist for a root canal or have an accident in the bathtub instead.

  Tony Kushner

  Running, Writing, Hands

  "We Call That Failure Art" by Tony Kushner, www.newyorker.com. October 31, 2013.

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• I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

  Chris Cooper

  Couple, Real, House

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• Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a whole is unchangeable, because motion or change is a relative thing; we can only think of something in motion in comparison with something which is not moving.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Moving, Thinking, Atoms

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.33, editionNEXT.com

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• Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming."

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Men, Band, Machines

  J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

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• A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

  George Ade

  Best Friend, Time, Funny Friend

  George Ade (1903). “People You Know”

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• Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

  Sidney Altman

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Government

  Sidney Altman's speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Ordinary, Language

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.

  Christian Bale

  Attitude, Dad, Father

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

  Leon Kass

  Children, Parent, Copies

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• We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Long, Moral

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• In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Character, Past, Games

  Interview with Dag Rambraut, www.sffworld.com. June 22, 2001.

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• The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

  James Gould Cozzens

  People, Dumb, Brilliant

  James Gould Cozzens, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1978). “Just representations: a James Gould Cozzens reader”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

  Faye Dunaway

  Differences, Effort, Records

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• When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Logical Arguments, Absolutes

  Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

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• Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

  Albert Einstein

  Passing, Passings, Depends

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• In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Winning, Race

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• No one has yet discovered or ever shall discover what God is in His nature and essence... we shall, in time to come, 'know as we are known' (I Cor 13:12). But for the present what reaches us is a scant emanation, as it were a small beam from a great light - which means that any one who 'knew' God or whose 'knowledge' of Him has been attested to in the Bible, has a manifestly more brilliant knowledge than others not equally illuminated. This superiority was reckoned knowledge in the full sense, not because it really was so, but by the contrast of relative strengths.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Mean, Light

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• But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent.

  Louis Agassiz

  Ocean, Sea, Land

  Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”

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• To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Crush, Animal, Feet

  "On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx" by Mikhail Bakunin (1872), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, www.marxists.org. 1971.

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• It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Use, Problem, Individual

  "The Use of Knowledge in Society". American Economic Review, www.econlib.org. September 1945.

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• Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

  Keith Henson

  Family, Giving Up, Home

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• Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

  Oliver Hudson

  Family, Blood, You Choose

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Funny, Dog, Compassion

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