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• From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.

  Jodi Picoult

  Father, Views, Darkness

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no longer intended to wear to cocktail parties. even in her rose garden she did not want to appear underdressed. if the dresses got too dirty from gardening, she threw them out. when my mother suggested to her that she might have them cleaned, my grandmother said, "what? and have those people at the cleaners what i was doing in a dress to make it that dirty?" from my grandmother i learned that logic is relative.

  John Irving

  Mother, Party, Dirty

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• At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

  May Sarton

  Real, Believe, Holding Back

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

  Mario Benedetti

  Dream, Enough, Minutes

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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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• The impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help. They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip- the relative you cringe to kiss.

  Markus Zusak

  Moving, Kissing, Reality

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.24, Random House

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• The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Thinking, Focus, Missing

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• There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

  John Muir

  Unity, Yosemite, Fragments

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.84, e-artnow

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• One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa every two to four days. This pattern is a function of human behavior. It takes several days of a market rallying before it looks really good. That’s when everyone wants to buy it, and that’s the time when the professionals, like myself, are selling. Conversely, when the market has been down for a few days, and everyone is bearish, that’s the time I like to be buying.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Moving, Two, Vices

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• I deeply believe that everything is relative. We need the bad to appreciate the good, and vice versa. We need something unexpected to happen in order for us to realize that everything was expected. It's our relation to those things that we are able to decide how we feel and the level of intensity of those feelings. Such is relativity

  Shania Twain

  Believe, Order, Appreciate

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• "Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence-unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Peace, Military, War

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• Learn to look not just with your eyes but with your heart. The truth is that style and taste are all relative. It is not a question whether or not someone has good taste. It is how something feels to the individual…Open your heart and mind to the world, and find the things that connect with you. How else will you know how to design your home?

  Kelly Hoppen

  Home, Heart, Eye

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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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Rights, Tasks

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2016). “The Will to Power, Book I to IV: An Attempted Transvaluation of all Values (Complete)”, p.576, Library of Alexandria

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• All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

  Rex Brandt

  Artist, Quality, Students

  Rex Brandt (1977). “Watercolor techniques and methods: the twenty basic lessons adapted from The winning ways of watercolor for easy student and studio use”

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• Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Loneliness, Vision

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.54, Oscar Wilde

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• There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

  Allan Bloom

  Believe, Entering, Students

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people

  John Ruskin

  Art, Stupid, Eye

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

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• We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn, or bring it alongside of another truth, which may make it clearer, and thereby accumulate evidence. It belongs to the inventive faculty to see clearly the relative state of things, and to be able to place them in connection; but the discoveries of ages gone by belong less to their first authors than to those who make them practically useful to the world.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Discovery, Age, Connections

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