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• And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

  Barack Obama

  Suffering, Borders, World

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

  John Shadegg

  Reality, Payroll Tax, Numbers

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• The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Real, Lovers, Hinduism

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• The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away

  Bill W.

  Wisdom, Real, Lying

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• The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the cortex by the tens of millions of fibres which make up the under-estimated white matter, such a brain would be useless as a telephone or telegraph station with all the interconnecting wires destroyed.

  Edward Anthony Spitzka

  Science, Cells, Gray Matter

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• Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Done, Body

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

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• While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Perfection

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.

  Arnon Grunberg

  Gold, Bitcoin, Firsts

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• In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who's suffering. (But we must also think about) the terrorists who are creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the negativity of this karma. It's all of our jobs to keep our minds as expansive as possible. If you can see (the terrorists) as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine, and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.

  Richard Gere

  Karma, Jobs, Thinking

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• If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.

  Richard Gere

  Compassion, Medicine, Giving

  "Gere: Deal With Terrorists With Love And Compassion" by Wenn.com, October 11, 2001.

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• I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the man himself. He is maybe a distant relative. It's hard to approach the real man because he is such an awesome icon.

  Karl Urban

  Real, Men, Icons

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• Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right now; the forces in my life confound one another. Better, for the moment, to be here and now, without history or future.

  Nick Harkaway

  Discovery, Body, May

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• Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only one of the alternative futures that may exist relative to a given moment is a physically possible continuation of the state of things at the moment. Or, if you like, we may say that determinism is the thesis that only one continuation of the state of things at a given moment is consistent with the laws of nature.

  Peter van Inwagen

  Unique, Law, Alternatives

  Peter Van Inwagen (1993). “Metaphysics”

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• Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

  James Sallis

  Truth Is, Courses

  James Sallis (2012). “The Killer is Dying”, p.21, Oldcastle Books

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• I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.

  Cecil Taylor

  Thinking, People, Want

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• Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are preparing for a full life ahead... now that's what you call risk!

  Dave Hampton

  Children, Future, Games

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• Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.

  Susan Rice

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Road to Riches". Interview with Mishal Husain, www.pbs.org. August 28, 2003.

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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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• The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Choices, Criteria, Absolutes

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “Towards a Critical Theory of Society: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse”, p.52, Routledge

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• A parallel between color and music can only be relative – just as a violin can give warm shades of tone, so yellow has shades, which can be expressed by various instruments.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Color, Yellow, Giving

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• I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Gay, Way, Helping

  "Manny Pacquiao Banned From Hollywood Mall Over Gay Marriage Comments" by Myles Collier, www.christianpost.com. May 16, 2012.

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• The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

  George Soros

  Groups, Peers, Followers

  George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, p.312, John Wiley & Sons

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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Influence, Realms

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• If you had to explain America's economic success with one word, that word would be "education".... Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual - a slow-motion erosion of America's relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis ... deals a severe blow to education across the board.... We need to wake up and realize that one of the keys to our nation's historic success is now a wasting asset. Education made America great; neglect of education can reverse the process.

  Paul Krugman

  Education, Blow, America

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• In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

  Walter Pater

  Eye, Two, World

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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