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• It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

  Winslow Homer

  Black And White, Wonderful, Colour

  Winslow Homer (1979). “Winslow Homer: Master of the Wood Engraving”

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• Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

  Hosea Ballou

  Exaggeration Is, Blood, Exaggerated

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• Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure,
  Classes, by the manner in which that plan is executed, as far as ways and means are concerned,
  Orders, by the degrees of complication of that structure,
  Families, by their form, as far as determined by structure,
  Genera, by the details of the execution in special parts, and
  Species, by the relations of individuals to one another and to the world in which they live, as well as by the proportions of their parts, their ornamentation, etc.

  Louis Agassiz

  Mean, Order, Class

  Louis Agassiz (1857). “Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America: pt. I. Essay on classification. pt. II. North American Testudinata. 1857”, p.170

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• Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Males, Female, Half

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• It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.

  Fred Hoyle

  Lying, Adventure, Men

  "Frontiers of Astronomy". Book by Fred Hoyle (p. 1), 1955.

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• Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.

  David Gerrold

  Determination, Velocity, Morality

  David Gerrold (2014). “Starhunt: A Star Wolf Novel”, p.82, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.

  James Burnham

  Class, Liberty, Groups

  "The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom" by James Burnham, (p. 280), 1987.

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• Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Home, Imperfect World, Normal

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.9, 谷月社

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• The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Philosophical, Government, People

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• No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Love, Law, Looks

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.60, Gibbs Smith

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• In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

  Terry Eagleton

  Stress, Mean, Humanity

  "The death of universities" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, Race, Law

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• It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

  Evan Davis

  Effectiveness, Too Much, Wonder

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• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  Talcott Parsons

  Doe, Facts, States

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

  Asvaghosa

  Character, Mean, Practice

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• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  Vida Blue

  Baseball, Winning, Men

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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• To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.

  Merold Westphal

  Tasks, Existentialism, Assuming

  Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.35, Penn State Press

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• I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

  Hugo Chavez

  Government, Wish, United States

  "Hugo Chavez prefers Obama", www.politico.com. September 30, 2012.

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• I started in the industry in Public Relations, Quality Assurance, Information Systems and furniture moving. I tried my hand in design and haven’t looked back. I’m fond of hackysack, racquetball, BBQ grilling, hanging out with my wife and friends

  Dan Miller

  Moving, Bbq, Hands

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• The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Reality, Historical, Foundation

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

  Spencer Abraham

  Thinking, Years, Doubt

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

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• If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.

  Mary Douglas

  Unique, Order, Hygiene

  "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo". Book by Mary Douglas, 1966.

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• [In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

  Reginald Fessenden

  Science, Progression, Something New

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• Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested in the three fundamental environmental factors: housing (including family life), nutrition, and working conditions (including human relations as well as material conditions).

  Karl Evang

  Views, Environmental Factors, Firsts

  Karl Evang (1960). “Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures”

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• In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are something of an inevitable concomitant of post-traditional social forms. Life plans are the substantial content of the reflexively organised trajectory of the self. Life-planning is a means of preparing a course of future actions mobilised in terms of the self's biography. We may also speak here of the existence of personal calendars or life-plan calendars, in relation to which the personal time of the lifespan is handled.

  Anthony Giddens

  Life, Mean, Self

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