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«There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
entering, professor, relative, student, the University, university
«The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.»
Author: Jiang Zemin
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applied, applied science, concepts, domain, Einstein, Human rights, natural science, political science, political theory, relative, right field, theory of, theory of relativity
«Sex is two plus two making five, rather than four. Sex is the X ingredient that you can't define, and it's that X ingredient between two people that make both a man and a woman good in bed. It's all relative. There are no rules.»
«To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
crushes, General The, intensity, in general, relative, revolt, revolted, revolts, tendency, vitality, worm
«To be Canadian is to live in relative calm and with great dignity.»
«We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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«The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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digest, digests, images, pasture, relative, signs, storehouse, storehouses, transform, visible
«To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Killing,
Relationships,
Relatives
| Keywords:
genuine, inherit, relative, To Kill a
«We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull...»
«Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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