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• In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

  Walter Pater

  Eye, Two, World

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

  Alice James

  Dream, Giving Up, Reality

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Life, Dream, Use

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.78, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Age, Action

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We are on track for a 3.5 deg C rise by 2040 (i.e. 4.2 deg C relative to pre-industrial)... When I look at this data, the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius, which would have devastating consequences for the planet. We have 5 years to change the energy system, or have it changed

  Fatih Birol

  Years, Data, Track

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• The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them and learn from them, the transition will proceed faster and in more resource-efficient ways. If, on the other hand, we prefer the short-term comfort of burying our failures, or of blaming scapegoats, the transition will be significantly slowed, or could even be derailed completely.

  John Elkington

  Inspiring, Hands, Comfort

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• The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

  Danny Porush

  Book, Film

  "Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street: animal rights group calls for boycott" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2013.

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• If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

  Herodotus

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

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• Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.

  Jeff Goodell

  Fighting, Climate, Bills

  Interview with Bill Gates, www.rollingstone.com. December 9, 2010.

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• I think we're going to have to do better. Mr. Nixon talks about our being the strongest country in the world. I think we are today, but we were far stronger relative to the Communists 5 years ago. And what is of great concern is that the balance of power is in danger of moving with them. They made a breakthrough in missiles and by 1961, '2, and '3, they will be outnumbering us in missiles.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Moving, Thinking

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• The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

  John Shadegg

  Reality, Payroll Tax, Numbers

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• From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Compassion, Voice, People

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Two, Relaxation, World

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• The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization of the nervous system, in general, and of the brain in particular, just as the knowledge of the functions of a sense is independent of the knowledge of the structure of its apparatus.

  Franz Joseph Gall

  Independent, Fate, Law

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• At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Ballet, Style

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• Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.

  Jim Butcher

  Confused, Confusing, Alternatives

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1268, Penguin

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• Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

  Kurt Lewin

  Events, Different, Environment

  Kurt Lewin (2013). “Principles of Topological Psychology”, p.24, Read Books Ltd

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• We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find satisfaction.

  Maurice Samuel

  Enemy, Tears, Satisfaction

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• An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.

  Saul Alinsky

  Reality, Doe, Different

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• I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Hard Work, Adversity, Poverty

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• The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

  Bill Gates

  Definitions, Bases, Behinds

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• Technology should do the hard work, so you can get on and live your life. We're only at one percent of what's possible, and we're moving slow relative to the opportunity we have.

  Larry Page

  Moving, Hard Work, Technology

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• I'm not against gay people... I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. What I'm critical off are actions that violate the word of God.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Sex, Gay, Law

  "Manny Pacquiao Banned From Hollywood Mall Over Gay Marriage Comments" by Myles Collier, www.christianpost.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

  Gustave Courbet

  Truth Is, Individual

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• Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Motivation, Opportunity

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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