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• A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.

  Emile Durkheim

  Practice, Community, Religion

  Emile Durkheim, Steven Lukes (2014). “The Rules of Sociological Method: And Selected Texts on Sociology and Its Method”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

  Martina Navratilova

  Football, Team, Differences

  MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

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• What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts: to ask for the compassion of the enlightened beings, to ask for purification and healing, to ask for the power to understand the meaning of our suffering and transform it; at a relative level to ask for the growth in our lives of clarity, peace, and discernment, and to ask for the realization of the absolute nature of mind that comes from merging with the deathless wisdom mind of the master.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Humility, Healing, Heart

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Feb 01, 2013

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• Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part of extended families. The nepotistic U.S. policy lets in relatives then lets in the relatives' relatives, and so on, creating an endless and ever growing chain of new immigrants.

  Ronald Reagan

  Creating, People, Immigration

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• The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and the resulting ratios in the three age groups in which a large number of patients were interviewed (ages 45 to 74) are averaged, the relative risks become 6, 19, 26, 49, and 65 when the number of cigarettes smoked a day are 3, 10, 20, 35, and, say, 60-that is, the mid-points of each smoking group. In other words, on the admittedly speculative assumptions we have made, the risk seems to vary in approximately simple proportion with the amount smoked.

  Richard Doll

  Cancer, Taken, Science

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• When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the "conqueror" observes and continues to rule.

  Brian Day

  Health, Government, Common Threads

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• Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

  Douglas Adams

  Sister, Time, Brother

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.706, Pan Macmillan

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• Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Justice, Diversity, Measurement

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• Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a better source of information than any score regarding the wine's style and personality, its quality level relative to its peers, and its relative value and aging potential.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Wine, Relative Value, Personality

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• The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of your force at the point where you join in battle. You can strike with the few and be many if you strike your adversary in his gaps. Seek out places where the defense is not strict, the place not tightly guarded, the generals weak, the troops disorderly, the supplies are scarce and the forces are isolated.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Battle

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• The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sacrifice, Blood, Generosity

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.49, Stanford University Press

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• Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Emotional, Feelings, Disease

  Mary Tyler Moore (2009). “Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. We can however give some, and millions of people do, governments do, but there is so much more to be done.

  Roger Moore

  Giving Up, Keys, Government

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• There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Strong, Circles, Anxiety

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1866). “Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales: In 2 vols”, p.136

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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Influence, Realms

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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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• 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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• We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

  Josef Albers

  Motivational, Art, Color

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• Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.

  Isaac Newton

  Time, Mean, Science

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Giving, Imagination, Pastures

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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• The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

  Samuel Johnson

  Powerful, Men, Numbers

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.125

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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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