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Relative Quotes

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Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
Auguste Comte

Authors on Relative Quotes: Dan Chaon Michio Kaku Margaret Atwood Ramana Maharshi Auguste Comte P. G. Wodehouse Julianne Moore Sybille Bedford Don Rickles Henry Handel Richardson Ricky Gervais Dan Mangan Nicholson Baker Tenzin Palmo William S. Burroughs Paulo Coelho John Mulaney Oliver Hudson Charles Bukowski James Sallis Robert K. G. Temple Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton George Harrison Thomas Carlyle William Davis Peter Kreeft Lionel Shriver Fareed Zakaria Alethea Kontis Joe Kraus Stephen Hawking Ernst Troeltsch Gustave Courbet
2.
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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Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?
Charles Bukowski

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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
William S. Burroughs

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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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Where there's a will - there's a relative!
Ricky Gervais

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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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Impossible is relative.
Michio Kaku

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Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.
Stephen Hawking

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Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
Ramana Maharshi

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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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The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.
Henry Handel Richardson

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Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.
Dan Chaon

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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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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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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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Everything in life is relative.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

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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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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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I still have drive, but everything is relative.
Don Rickles

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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria

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Freedom, like everything else, is relative.
Margaret Atwood

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All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.
Sybille Bedford

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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

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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
Nicholson Baker

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The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.
Dan Mangan

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Our relative being is what rules our relative world.
Tenzin Palmo

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Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.
James Sallis

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Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Time has only a relative existence.
Thomas Carlyle

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To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.
William Davis

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Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat
Lionel Shriver

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Normal is all relative.
Alethea Kontis

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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 think the word rich is all relative.
Joel Osteen