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• Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, Careers, Down And

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• I think that's a challenge as believers - how do you demonstrate the gospel? How do you do that? I mean it's easy to talk about it and say 'Oh this is what we are supposed to be doing' and this is the relevance. But how do you do that with your hands instead of your mouth? How do you do it every day, instead of just onstage, how is it enacted? And I feel like that is one of the ways that we can show what we believe, by how we treat people around the world.

  Jon Foreman

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• This is a very challenging moment for educators. Our children are headed for a much more networked existence, one that allows for learning to occur 24, 7, 365, one that renders physical space much less important for learning, one that will challenge the relevance of classrooms as currently envisioned, and one that challenges our roles as teachers and adult learners.

  Will Richardson

  Teacher, Children, Space

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• Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Running, Moving, Issues

  "Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo Interview MACHETE". Press conference, collider.com. August 29, 2010.

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• Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, and give them relevance.

  Mark Klett

  Giving, Antiques, Unnecessary

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• The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  War, Thinking, Law

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• Relevance is not a substitute for the Gospel, but an entry point for it

  Edward John Carnell

  Ministry, Substitutes, Entry

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• Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Lying, People, Intellectual

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• …I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Thinking, Light

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.90, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious; such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.

  Antoni Tapies

  Space, Shapes, Firsts

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 27), 2004.

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• Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.

  Jane Smiley

  Fashion, Irrelevance, Novelists

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.434, Anchor

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• The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Important, Development, Detachment

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• Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Art, Commitment, California

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• Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.

  Peter Singer

  Stress, Animal, Order

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• Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

  Stanley Fish

  Goal, Freedom Of Speech, Academic

  Source: www.salon.com

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• As we change, the way in which we are perceived in terms of our relevance, our value, our beauty, and sexual potency changes.

  Marisa Silver

  Way, Potency, Term

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You know, "Moonlight" deserves best picture [on Oscar]. What I mean by tarnished is the moment - being able to be in front of all your peers and being able to thank everyone involved and particularly when it's a movie that has some pivotal social relevance, like "Moonlight," particularly in a time where, with this new transitional government, LGBT rights are just being stripped. This win means something.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Mean, Winning, Rights

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Constructs like race will decline in relevance in a roboticized world. That how well one human subset or community - a race, a nationality, a religion - is doing will be secondary to how well humanity in general is doing in face of the robot revolution.

  Garry Kasparov

  Community, Humanity, World

  "Garry Kasparov on Russia, chess, and the great gambit of AI". Interview with Alexander Bisley, www.macleans.ca. May 1, 2017.

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• I think it is less the limited amount of information than the filters that information about the Middle East must pass through before being fairly addressed in the mainstream media. In more intellectual and geopolitical terms, the perceptions of the region are distorted by a combination of Orientalism and the priorities of the state of Israel, including the refusal to discuss the relevance of Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal in the context of addressing Iran on its nuclear program.

  Richard A. Falk

  Thinking, Israel, Media

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The important thing when you are tied down is to continue to model Christ's love. This will ensure that your words, perhaps spoken long ago, will have fresh relevance, or it will help little ones to understand what it means to live the Christian life in days to come. A life well-lived in these circumstances can be hugely useful in evangelism.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Mean, Long Ago

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• The New York Times is fighting desperately for its relevance and its financial survival. And it probably won't even be around in a few years, based on its financial outlook, which wouldn't be a bad thing, if you want to know the truth.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Fighting, Years

  Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations, www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

  Nigel Gibson

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.

  Thomas Sowell

  Long, Judging, Facts

  Thomas Sowell (2001). “A Personal Odyssey”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• There's actually a wonderful quote from Stanley Fish, who is sometimes very polemical and with whom I don't always agree. He writes, "Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right."

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Writing, Goal, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I'm not saying the 1970s was a golden age - I don't believe such a thing exists in art . . . It would be like talking about a golden age of science. But it's true that those were slightly more ideological times, and the relevance of artists wasn't established by their CVs but by their work.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Art, Believe, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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