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• If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to have a healthy Congress in which the two parties are debating, disagreeing, but also occasionally working together to pass legislation.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Two, Government

  "NPR's Exit Interview With President Obama". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org.

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• No matter to what degree China opens up to the outside world and admits foreign capital, its relative magnitude will be small and it can't affect our system of socialist public ownership of the means of production.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mean, Degrees, World

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• For African American children, in particular, the odds are extremely high that they will have a parent or loved one, a relative, who has either spent time behind bars or who has acquired a criminal record and thus is part of the under-caste - the group of people who can be legally discriminated against for the rest of their lives. For many African American children, their fathers, and increasingly their mothers, are behind bars. It is very difficult for them to visit. Many people are held hundreds or even thousands of miles away from home.

  Michelle Alexander

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

  Russell Banks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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• It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Cells, Eggs

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• Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Beauty, Fashion, Passion

  "Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings". Book by Fayek S. Hourani, p. 169, 2012.

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• It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

  Gary Hamel

  Educational, Ecosystems, What Matters

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• It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Use, Problem, Individual

  "The Use of Knowledge in Society". American Economic Review, www.econlib.org. September 1945.

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• Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.

  Keith Henson

  Family, Giving Up, Home

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• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Way, Comedy, Quiet

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Children, Mercy

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• Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Important, Matter

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.63, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Writing, Order

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.63, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think the word rich is all relative.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Rich

  "The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006". abcnews.go.com. December 12, 2006.

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• The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.

  Steven Pinker

  Impact, Mind, Scales

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• If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

  Dennis Prager

  War, Reading, People

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• I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Passed Away

  "Daniel Radcliffe On Set Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. October 5, 2010.

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• In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of journalists is now becoming, in most cases, a very relative thing: it ends where the interests of the business begin... In socialist areas, it is enough to recall that the means of social communication are the monopoly of the party.

  Hélder Câmara

  Country, Communication, Party

  Hélder Câmara (1971). “Spiral of Violence”, Burns & Oates

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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.

  Peter Brook

  Yesterday, Cards, Fields

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• It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Destiny, Might, Chance

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

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• Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Strong, Mean, Home

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.57, A&C Black

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• "Another relative?" Valek asked.
  A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother's uncle's wife's third cousin."

  Maria V. Snyder

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

  "Magic Study". Book by Maria V. Snyder, 2006.

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• Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Mean, Play

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• Let me tell you, you either have chemistry or you don't, and you better have it, or it's like kissing some relative. But chemistry, listen to me, you got to be careful. Chemistry is like those perfume ads, the ones that look so interesting and mysterious but you dont even know at first what they're even selling. Or those menues without the prices. Mystery and intrigue are gonna cost you. Great looking might mean something ve-ry expensive, and I don't mean money. What I'm saying is, chemistry is a place to start, not an end point.

  Deb Caletti

  Mean, Kissing, Interesting

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Risk, Someone You Love, Favors

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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