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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
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.
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.
The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.
I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced.
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.
I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much as we think they do.
Liquidity is a good proxy for relative net worth. You can't lie about cash, stocks, and bond values.
Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
Yoga is the method to bring or uncover the union that exists. That all things are relative and are in relationship and that nothing is singular or by itself.
I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how commonplace it is.
Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
The producers of 'Chernobyl' should tell the truth: the accident demonstrates the relative safety, not danger, of nuclear power.
The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.
Everything's relative. I don't think any new pursuit will be as difficult as trying to break into wrestling 25 years ago.
We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.
Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.
The relative illiquidity of small-company shares - which often contributes to their being undervalued - also increases their volatility.
In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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.
Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
I don't think that the world will ever become an unpoliced place, sadly. But I do feel that there is relative freedom on the margins.
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.
Listening to a FNM record is like a visit from a mysterious relative who knows more about your family than you did.
Despite all the hype and excitement about AI, it's still extremely limited today relative to what human intelligence is.
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.
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.
Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
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.
The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.
I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
When I first started on Twitter, a relative asked, 'Aren't you concerned with giving away your jokes?' I don't think of it that way. That's my content, and that's what I do.
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
The United States emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented absolute and relative power. It was truly first among unequals.
In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives.
I love going to horror movies - especially when they are fun. I think that they get you in touch with sort of these primal instincts that we all have in the relative safety of the theater.
I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.
At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.
Disabilities are a very relative condition, it is something that defines a situation, but if you can't jump over the problem then you can certainly go around it.
You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.
Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking apart on the rocks.
Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it - and win.
Relative to Google or the kind of turnaround we're seeing, we do care about profitability. That is our goal in every one of the areas where we invest.
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.
Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.
As a relative outsider to IT, I am able to view technology and our solutions from a business perspective, first and foremost.
There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.
If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.
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.
