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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.
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Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
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I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of success.
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If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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In all probability, when the 1919 series is over, a diagnosis of it will show that the final result was brought about by some unusual situation or freak happening that was given no consideration when the relative strength of the two clubs was considered.
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It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.
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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.
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Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
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Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
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