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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
Auguste Comte
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The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.
Danny Porush
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I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
Ron Chernow
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You only understand information relative to what you already understand.
Richard Saul Wurman
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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
Gustave Courbet
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Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.
Flannery O'Connor
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In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.
Paulo Coelho
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Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.
Alfred Stieglitz
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The worst hatred is that of relatives.
Tacitus
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There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
Meher Baba
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But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.
Marc Benioff
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Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.
Stephen Hawking
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We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
Holly Near
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
Plautus
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While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.
Swami Vivekananda
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Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
Ramana Maharshi
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Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.
George Harrison
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History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
Ernst Troeltsch
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Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.
Dan Chaon
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Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
Oliver Hudson
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You all have a relative who is an expert even though they really don't know what they're talking about.
John Mulaney
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It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
Peter Kreeft
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Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can't just jump into it. You have to live it all the time.
Mario Andretti
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My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.
Robert K. G. Temple
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria
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I still have drive, but everything is relative.
Don Rickles
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Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat
Lionel Shriver
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To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.
William Davis
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Set measurable goals, measure relative to competition.
Joe Kraus
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The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.
Todd Burpo
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I seem to have emerged from the relative obscurity of TV.
Peter Webber
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You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.
will.i.am
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I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
Daniel Radcliffe
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Young children from Guatemala who are adopted into the United States gain considerable height relative to the standards. So the height difference cannot be genetic.
Richard H. Steckel
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Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?
Henry David Thoreau
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Older, you know, is obviously relative. You're older if there's somebody younger than you in the room, and you're younger if there's someone older in the room.
Julianne Moore