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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.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
It seems you can ask any friend, any relative, and they'll be able to tell you about someone they know with autism.
Listening to a FNM record is like a visit from a mysterious relative who knows more about your family than you did.
Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it's still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Everything's relative. I don't think any new pursuit will be as difficult as trying to break into wrestling 25 years ago.
When the dollar goes down relative to other currencies, the price of wheat, corn, rice and oil all go up in dollar terms.
Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
As a relative outsider to IT, I am able to view technology and our solutions from a business perspective, first and foremost.
My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
I think we all achieve a little. You can say, 'That's relative.' But when you think of world events, it really is very small.
The United States emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented absolute and relative power. It was truly first among unequals.
Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.
The producers of 'Chernobyl' should tell the truth: the accident demonstrates the relative safety, not danger, of nuclear power.
Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.
A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
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.
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
Where anger can be seen as a relative positive in a man, it is hardly ever perceived as anything other than a negative in a woman.
Crazy is a relative term, you know. Everybody is unique in their own way and some people work harder for longer hours than others.
What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it - and win.
I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.
The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.
The relative illiquidity of small-company shares - which often contributes to their being undervalued - also increases their volatility.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.
I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be.
We have made a decision in our economy to lower taxes on successful risk-taking and have been very successful relative to Europe and Japan.
Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it is to play the third yeoman on a 'Star Trek' episode.
America's role in the global economy inevitably was going to diminish; we're smaller relative to - as China, India, other emerging markets grow.
For us in England, the relative value of the pound against the dollar, that has a huge impact on how easy it is to get our films made in the U.K.
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.
Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own.
Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers.