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• I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.

  Cesar Romero

  Laughing, Males, Concerned

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• If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

  Anwar Sadat

  Men, Law, Humans

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people.

  Mao Zedong

  Communication, Weather, People

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1961). “On Guerrilla Warfare”, p.46, University of Illinois Press

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• Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.

  Marty Feldman

  Sex, Men, Two

  "Speaking Frankly: What Makes a Woman Good in Bed". Book by Wendy Leigh, London: Muller, 1978.

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• Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.

  Diana Trilling

  Pain, Design, Attention

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• It seems like every ten years there's a book that says that poetry used to be popular, and now it's not, but we really have no way of knowing, in terms of relative size of audience and other things, exactly who readers were.

  Robert Hass

  Book, Knowing, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Men, Doe

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  Jack Dee

  Kids, Thinking, Elderly

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• It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.

  Chris Hadfield

  Baby, Color, Smell

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• 1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Perfection, Together, Complaining

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• Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.

  James Carville

  Truth, Smart, Believe

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• Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

  Nicholson Baker

  Particular

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.65, Vintage

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• To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Home, Writing, Relatives And Friends

  Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.46, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

  John Dewey

  Education, Science, Reality

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Writing, Church, Important

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• The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant and questioning, contemplates... his spirit yearns for an answer that will allay the turmoil of doubt and uncertainty.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Our World, Doubt

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.215, Psychology Press

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• When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Together, Too Much, Sides

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• I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Believe, Judgment

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.

  Anthony de Mello

  Father, Heart, Relative Value

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.151, Image

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• When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Sea, Coal Miners, Justice

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 9 : 'Social' or Distributive Justice, 1973.

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• No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

  Sarada Devi

  Karma, Past, Doubt

  "Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 361), 2004.

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• In the [Michael] Jackson orbit, normal is relative. What a mess.

  Roxanne Roberts

  Orbit, Normal, Mess

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Spiritual, Self, Important

  "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (Chapter 3-2 Life of Faith), 1980.

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• Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?

  Ronald Dworkin

  Doe, Authority, Holes

  Ronald Dworkin (2013). “Taking Rights Seriously”, p.48, A&C Black

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• Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice.

  Charles Franklin Thwing

  Passion, Perfect, Justice

  Charles Franklin Thwing, Carrie Frances Butler Thwing (1886). “The Family: An Historical and Social Study”

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