“ A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. ”
- Martin Gardner- Copy
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“ Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it. ”
- Richard Lester- Copy
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“ To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
- James A. Baldwin- Copy
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“ My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time. ”
- Jamie Lee Curtis- Copy
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“ Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve. ”
- Ryszard Kapuscinski- Copy
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“ Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 474
“ Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing? ”
- Katharine Whitehorn- Copy
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“ Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. ”
- Brendan Francis- Copy
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“ Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ If we — and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create the consciousness of others — do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ I've been told that I've arrived many times over the years so I take it with a grain of salt. It's a relatively new situation obviously, but if it all went up in smoke tomorrow, I wouldn't really care that much. There are a lot of things that interest me… ”
- Viggo Mortensen- Copy
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“ Left to my own imagination, I could never have composed a scenario that was anywhere as interesting as my life has been: starting out as an eager altar boy, a good Boy Scout, a relatively docile Dominican brother and priest, receiving an advanced degree in spirituality, teaching bishops and many others around the world about our Western spiritual tradition, and then ending up being expelled from the Dominican order. ”
- Matthew- Copy
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“ I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point. ”
- Laurence Fishburne- Copy
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“ Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ”
- Susan Griffin- Copy
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“ After my return to the dream-like delusional hypotheses in the later '60s, I became a person of delusionally influenced thinking but of relatively moderate behavior and thus tended to avoid hospitalization and the direct attention of psychiatrists. ”
- John Nash- Copy
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“ Our world is driven by our remarkable ability to carefully measure and divide units of time. In a reasonable sense, the invention of clocks has had a greater effect on our lives than the invention of wheels. You can invent wheels relatively easily, if you live where trees fall over. ”
- Bill Nye- Copy
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“ After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summer camp right after my dad's death. But when I hit 12, 13, that was it. I hated my mom's boyfriend, and there was a lot of control on me. I didn't like that, so I rebelled. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
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“ Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything right the first time, and since I don't write with a hammer and chisel, it's relatively easy for me to change. It's just words on paper. Words are free. You don't go to the store and order a pound of words, or five hundred words, and pay your three dollars… ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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“ It is true that there are exercises that can strengthen the 'muscle' that enable us to push back the bounds of acceptation. But these are relatively unimportant. The real problem is that we are trapped in misconceptions that always deceive us, as the matador's cape deceives the bull; that continue to deceive us a million times over the course of a lifetime… ”
- Colin Wilson- Copy
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“ The behavior of actually walking away from important problems is a relatively extreme negative approach to problem solving. In other cases, people may mentally "walk away" without physically removing themselves…Lack of attention to a task is not simply a result of "disinterest" or "laziness… ”
- John D. Bransford and Barry S. Stein- Copy
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“ Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced. Toxic chemotherapy is a hoax. The doctors who use it are guilty of pre-meditated murder, and the use of cobalt and other methods of cancer treatment popular today effectively closes the door on cure. ”
- Ernst T. Krebs Jr.- Copy
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“ All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters — where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness. ”
- Erik Erikson- Copy
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“ Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement? ”
- Karen Horney- Copy
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