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• Readiness is a student’s entry point relative to a particular understanding or skill.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Skills, Understanding, Students

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• It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people who believe that, since morality is relative, they have no sins to forgive.

  Gene Veith

  Believe, People, Forgiving

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• From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the creative evolution of the fundamental structural plans is heavily burdened with hypothesis. This should appear as an epigraph to every book on evolution. The lack of direct evidence leads to the formulation of pure conjecture as to the genesis of the phyla; we do not even have a basis to determine the extent to which these opinions are correct.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Book, Creative, Fossils

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• What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Dream, Reality, Life Is

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• Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Social Values, Desire, Needs

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• Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Lying, Keys, Dna

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Information

  Richard Saul Wurman, Loring Leifer, David Sume (2001). “Information Anxiety 2”, Que Pub

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• Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.

  Cus D'Amato

  Smart, Mean, Boxing

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• There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.

  Koichi Tohei

  World, Conflict, Absolutes

  "Ki Sayings". Book by Koichi Tohei, Chapter 10: "The Principle of Non-Dissension", ki-moscow.narod.ru. 2003.

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• A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Men, People

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.191, Discovery House

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• Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one, and in relation to what can it move? There is nothing besides it. So this infinite Unit is unchangeable, immovable, absolute, and this is the Real Man.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Moving, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.17, editionNEXT.com

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• All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, Progress, Degradation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3533, Manonmani Publishers

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• All progression is in the relative world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, World, Progression

  Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

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• What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this relative truth. The conscious choices we make in related to the dynamic, psychobiological forces of the daimonic define our humanity.

  Stephen A. Diamond

  Choices, Humanity, Determined

  Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.179, SUNY Press

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• We can say the stars are moving because we have a relative context.

  Frederick Lenz

  Stars, Moving, Taoism

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• Unreasonable is very relative.

  Lakshmi Pratury

  Journey, Life Is A Journey, Unreasonable

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• Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Spiritual, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.238, Penguin

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• In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Death, Country, Taken

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2017). “Notes from China”, p.3, Random House

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• Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant

  Socrates

  Running, Truth, Ignorance

  Socrates, Gordon Jacobs (2017). “Socrates: 100 Quotes on Life, Free Will, and Virtue”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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• The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Ideas, Machines, Aliens

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• Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

  John W. Gardner

  Nonprofits, Pluralism, Democratic

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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.

  Jeff Fahey

  Play, Feet, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with the penalties for poor short-term performance, the long-term view may well be from the unemployment line ... Relative-performance-oriented investors really act as speculators. Rather than making sensible judgments about the attractiveness of specific stocks and bonds, they try to guess what others are going to do and then do it first.

  Seth Klarman

  Views, Perspective, Long

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• If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Doubt, Wicked

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• There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

  Meher Baba

  Evil, Degrees

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