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• I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant

  Anita Hill

  May, Information, Vendetta

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.

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• The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Mean, Political

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin's Lecture at the California Institute of Technology, January 17, 2003.

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• Injection of environmental and political perspectives in midstream of the science discussion cannot help the process of inquiry. I believe that persons with relevant scientific expertise should concentrate, with pride, on cool objective analysis, providing information to the public and decision-makers when it is found, but leaving the moral implications for later common consideration, or at most for summary inferential discussion.

  James Hansen

  Believe, Pride, Perspective

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• Social media isn't the end-all-be-all, but it offers marketers unparalleled opportunity to participate in relevant ways. It also provides a launchpad for other marketing tactics. Social media is not an island. It's a high-power engine on the larger marketing ship.

  Matthew Dickman

  Opportunity, Islands, Media

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• More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

  Walter Isaacson

  Romantic, Jobs, Book

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• The reality is that beer still outsells wine and spirits combined, and makes up 60 of all alcoholic beverage occasions. It's important to keep beer fun, relevant and in step with the changing preferences of adults who enjoy beer.

  Pat McGauley

  Fun, Wine, Beer

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• Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no innovation is possible without the creative processes that mark the front end of the process: identifying important problems and opportunities, gathering relevant information, generating new ideas, and exploring the validity of those ideas.

  Teresa Amabile

  Creativity, Successful, Opportunity

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• This is a timely and relevant initiative. The environmental challenges facing Singapore and the region are becoming more complex. Tackling them will require inter-disciplinary approaches combined with a good understanding of science, economics and governance aspects. The NUS Bachelor of Environment programme will fill a much needed gap in the current framework. NEA is pleased to be a partner to this programme.

  Andrew Tan

  Understanding, Challenges, Environmental

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• Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex.

  Valerie Solanas

  Sex, Government, Feminist

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 1, 1967.

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• The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a cool one, hard to see, that began 2,500 years ago with the Buddha's insight about the end of suffering. What I have learned from these people has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live.

  Robert Thurman

  Time, Believe, Compassion

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• "Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum... In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources...

  Paul Saffo

  Views, Age, Information

  "It's The Context, Stupid" by Paul Saffo, www.wired.com. March 1, 1994.

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• I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.

  Marc Andreessen

  School, Long, Focus

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• When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing - if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

  Paul Auster

  Beautiful, Writing, Mind

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our founding fathers. They set forth principles that have endured for than more two centuries. Those principles are as meaningful and relevant in each generation as the generation before. It would be a profound privilege for me to play a role in applying those principles to the questions and controversies we face today.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Meaningful, Father, Play

  Sonia sotomayor's speech after being nominated by Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court, content.time.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Retirement, Home, Self

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2012). “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.

  Lana Del Rey

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

  Curt Flood

  Baseball, Uprising, Rebellion

  Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)

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• Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father.' Even where they are specially relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Father, Teaching

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• But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework of ethical purpose must become our deepest concern, our national preoccupation, our passion, our obsession. We must think of education as relevant for everyone everywhere - at all ages and in all conditions of life.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Believe, Passion

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• I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

  Amy Tan

  Opportunity, Events, Looks

  Amy Tan (1990). “The Joy Luck Club”

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• For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!

  Lynn Hill

  Rocks, Climbing, Years

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• There is so much that is fake about our society. My generation is craving something that is real, honest and true. The Message is straight up! It's modern, relevant, and direct.

  Rebecca St. James

  Real, Fake, Generations

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• Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes.

  James Chace

  Book, Events, Stories

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• Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Art, Thinking, Praise

  Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for Jumanji, polarexpress.com. 1982.

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• Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant.

  Trent Reznor

  Weekend, Media, Trying

  "Echo Chamber: Trent Reznor" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2010.

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