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• Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Facts, Attention

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1497, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.

  Lyall Watson

  Artist, Expression, Space

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• Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um - they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

  Bill Hicks

  Revolutionary Ideas, Church, Thumbs

  "Filling Up the Hump". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1993.

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• Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.

  Dan Brown

  Children, Communication, Sea

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Two, Voice

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• I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and immature, but I will also be very intelligent and relevant. At my shows, there are no holy cows.

  Vir Das

  Writing, Intelligent, People

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• Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Sports, Memories, Unique

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• Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.

  Alex Kapranos

  Moving, Creativity, Personality

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

  Joel Osteen

  Trying, Our Society

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed.

  Stefano Pilati

  Fashion, Needs, Understood

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• The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement... To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.

  David McCullough

  Believe, Achievement, Life Is

  David McCullough's Commencement Address at Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.thedailybeast.com. June 9, 2012.

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• All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.

  Winston Churchill

  Attributes

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• However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is some assurance that the analysis is actually relevant.

  Paul Krugman

  Doe, Analysis, Facts

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• What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By what means shall its inchoate and amorphous estate be organized into effective political action relevant to present social needs and opportunities? What has happened to the public in the century and a half since the theory of political democracy was urged with such assurance and hope?

  John Dewey

  Mean, Opportunity, Political

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• Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

  J. David Lewis-Williams

  Data, Scientist, Theory

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• Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest - have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Pigs, Elephants

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• I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain but I'm wasting my breath.

  Joe Royle

  Football, Writing, Complaining

  "Boothroyd's shoot-out trial raises the play-off stakes" by Mike Ansted, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2006.

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• What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character. It must advance plot. During dialogue, the characters confront one another. The confrontation is in itself an occasion. Each one of these occasions, throughout the novel, is unique.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Character, Unique

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

  Edward Burns

  Artist, Voice, Want

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• Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Education, Meaningful, Children

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• Obviously, the best dressed awards is very relevant, I'm best dressed at all times.(smiles)

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Awards, All Time

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• Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking about 'saving the planet' is an effective way to show their 'caring' for humanity and that it is the easiest way to maximize votes irrespective of any relevant activity which would aim at the real needs of people. The global warming dogma has become a very easy form of escapism from the current reality.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Real, Caring, Talking

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• I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

  Tea Leoni

  Glamour, Clothings

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

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• I think bitcoins are obviously becoming more and more relevant.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, Bitcoin, Becoming

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• Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and his razor sharp exploration of our contemporary ironies will break your heart.

  Margot Livesey

  Hero, Writing, Heart

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