Relative Quotes
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and situation with determines whether you will be happy and grateful or sad and jealous.
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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.
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We call our rich relatives the kin we love to touch.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.
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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.
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A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.
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Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.
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In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
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I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards.
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I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
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Soon' in the whiskey world is kind of relative. Everything for us is years and years down the road.
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
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That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
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The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
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I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.
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Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.
