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Is a melancolic truth that even the greatest men have...

Is a melancolic truth that even the greatest men have humble relatives.

Quote by Charles Dickens about truth, man

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something....

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about pleasure, contentment

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about writers, being

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Quote by Albert Camus about culture, creation, gifts, society, future, perfection

There are relatively few role models for young people. We...

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about society, man, people

Most of the time it was relatively cool, but I would get beat up sometimes when I'd walk around the neighborhood and kids didn't know me. One day I got jumped by, like, six dudes for no reason. I also got shot at, and ended up running out of my...

Quote by Eminem about reason, day, time

What Oregon's suicide laws actually do is convey social...

What Oregon's suicide laws actually do is convey social approval to individuals contemplating self-destruction, and to their friends and relatives.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about destruction, self-control

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's...

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Quote by Paul Gauguin

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about salary, americans

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

Quote by Martin Feldstein

If you ask for relatively little money, they worry that...

If you ask for relatively little money, they worry that you are going to get involved in something that is unwatchable or, worse, unmarketable.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about worry, money, contentment

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise

Quote by Dustin Hoffman about reason, film

The number of distraught and uncooperative relatives surrounding any given patient varies exponentially with the seriousness of the patient's illness or injury.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine, numbers

Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative, and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.

Quote by Walter Pater about beauty, experience, human imperfections

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

Quote by Walter Pater about absent, habits, people, failure, common sense, sense, things, world

Everything is relative, is the Internet fast. Not for most people. Is it always on, yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users.

Quote by John Patrick about computers, fasting, internet, people

Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key.

Quote by Robert Patterson about stores, end

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other...

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about parents

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about experience, absolute

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single...

Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.

Quote by Georges Courteline about fidelity, woman, man, time

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