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• We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Distance, Moving, Sea

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.123, Courier Dover Publications

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• I don't think I'll ever meet the perfect woman. I might have to get me one of them mail order women. You can do that: you send away to the Philippines, and they send you a wife. The only thing is, once you're on their mailing list, they keep sending you a relative a month whether you want it or not.

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.

  David Elkind

  Religious, Children, Honesty

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• An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for astrict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Faithful, Special, Evaluation

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia Smith Churchland, Dagfinn Follesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.200, MIT Press

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• Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Work, Organization, Groups

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• Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Mean

  News Conference on Iran Deal, edition.cnn.com. July 15, 2015.

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• Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Keys, Effort, Absolutes

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.188, Arktos

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• but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few

  Laird Barron

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Poverty, Ignoble

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• It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Order, Skills, Different

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, pp. 16-17, 1958.

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• The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.

  Eugene Fama

  Would Be, Investing, Matter

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• There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is "right"? Can you be truly objective in these matters? Or are "right" and "wrong" simply descriptions overlaid on events and circumstances by you, out of your decision about them?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Opposites

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.144, Penguin

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• The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.

  Seth Klarman

  Cost, Investing, Good Times

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• ... but the important thing is that when you do find one where you really do know what you are doing, you must buy in quantity.... Charlie and I have made a dozen or so very big decisions relative to net worth, although not as big as they should have been. And in each of those, we've known that we were almost certain to be right going in.

  Warren Buffett

  Should Have, Decision, Important

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• I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Order, Space, Said

  Third letter to Samuel Clarke, February 25, 1716.

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• Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

  Richard Whately

  Medicine, Knowing, Wholesomeness

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.200

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• Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Spiritual, Pain, Hardship

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• Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

  Nathan Goldstein

  Distance, Mean, Artist

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• We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.

  Albert Pike

  Land, Looks, Levels

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Choices

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• We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.

  Nick Saban

  Determination, Successful, Being Successful

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• Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

  Margaret Drabble

  Views, Novelists, Stories

  Interview with Lydia Perović, www.believermag.com.

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• There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.

  Henry Rollins

  Retirement, Grandchildren, Fire

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Glasses, Safety, Inexperience

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• I give to my friends the assurance that if they will recast their ideas and attitudes about the relative importance of the spiritual to the material, and bring themselves to participate in the mighty cause of establishing God's kingdom in the earth, they will find a satisfaction, a sureness of purpose, a peace and contentment, surpassing anything they have ever known.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Spiritual, Peace, Attitude

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