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• Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

  Patricia Churchland

  Knowing, Understanding, Progress

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• As long as thriller authors teach us about our world, they'll be relevant.

  David Morrell

  Our World, Long, Thrillers

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Gandhi’s idea of swadeshi—that local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedom—is becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.

  Vandana Shiva

  Self, Ideas, Needs

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• The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

  Milton Friedman

  Statistics, Tests, Predictions

  Milton Friedman, Kurt R. Leube (1987). “The essence of Friedman”, Hoover Inst Pr

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• When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Thank God, Trying

  "Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

  Bill Nighy

  Kindness, Regret, Compassion

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• Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.

  Ken Gillespie

  Mind, Connections, Body

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• In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

  Michael Crichton

  Results, Consensus, Irrelevant

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003.

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• Religion would certainly be more relevant to the hurting masses of humanity if people could express their hopes and dreams and pain and anguish to one another in the context of religious worship. As it is now our services are so antiseptic and sterile that people gathering for worship relate to others at only the most superficial level, and hardly ever get to know one another. . . . Maybe that is one of the reasons why people feel religion is irrelevant, because they cannot find support and solace during times of crisis and pain. That is when real religion should be at its best.

  Joseph Girzone

  Dream, Religious, Hurt

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• Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

  George Steiner

  Imagination, House, Treasure

  George Steiner (1980). “The death of tragedy”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.

  David Byrne

  Artist, Exotic, Done

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly call it "jazz." There is this whole generation of musicians that are playing and thinking critically for themselves and making music that's relevant to today. I hope that's the objective of a lot of musicians.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Thinking, Creative, Musician

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• To have this opportunity, in light of my familys struggles, made me want to create something lasting and relevant.

  Alek Wek

  Struggle, Opportunity, Light

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• It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Art, Opera, Expressive

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• So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?' It's a fair enough question and one I always try to answer well- but it saddens me that it so often overshadows the more relevant questions of 'why am I writing' and 'what am I saying' and 'how do I keep it honest.

  Celine Kiernan

  Writing, Class, Mind

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• In order to stay relevant, you have to stay open to new trends and keep educating yourself. You have to keep evolving.

  Natalie Massenet

  Order, Educating Yourself, Trends

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• It’s always about, somehow, finding a part of myself that is relevant, and then turning the volume up on that particular part. So, I am all of the characters I've ever played, and I am none of them at the same time.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Character, Volume, Particular

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• Nineteen thousand children [are] dying every day. Does it really matter that we're not walking past them in the street? Does it really matter that they're far away? I don't think it does make a morally relevant difference.

  Peter Singer

  Children, Past, Thinking

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• I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.

  Gwen Stefani

  Jobs, Real, Creative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Looking relevant, modern, timely and appropriate in terms of your age, body type and lifestyle is not only about the joy of self-expression but a form of self-care: it lets the world know how you want to be perceived and treated.

  Stacy London

  Self, Expression, Joy

  "‘Shut Up!’ Makeover Maven Stacy London Spills Her Fabulous Hair Advice!". Interview with Marta Topran, hollywoodlife.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

  Siobhan Fahey

  People, Age, Young

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• I'm excited about the opportunities with mobile phones and being able to receive information on the go and relevant to what I'm doing at that moment in time.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Opportunity, Phones, Information

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• Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

  Ken Jennings

  Powerful, Government, Ethnicity

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!

  Howard G. Hendricks

  People, Want, Nonsense

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• I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Thinking, People

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