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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?
You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.
I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.
The worst thing for me would be going back to where I was - relative obscurity.
I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
The discourse of sovereignty is a relative one when a crisis has become a global crisis.
Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.
Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.
If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help.
We all want to be normal, but it's relative to individuality. My normal is not your normal.
The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'
Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.
There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.
The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
But everything is relative, Bertie... You, for instance, are my relative, and I am your relative.
Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.
Liquidity is a good proxy for relative net worth. You can't lie about cash, stocks, and bond values.
Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade.
History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.
Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.
I was discovered, or mentored, by Norman Lear, who plucked me from the grinder of relative obscurity.
These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
Speed is relative. You have to live it. You can't just jump into it. You have to live it all the time.
I think 'Lost' is like losing a friend or a relative or someone. You can't replace it with another one.
Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.
It was very difficult to go from relative anonymity to such huge success in such a short space of time.
At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
One notable feature is that English doesn't have much of a system for expressing relative social status.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness.
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.