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It seems you can ask any friend, any relative, and they'll be able to tell you about someone they know with autism. Gary Cole
You Autism Relative Tell Able About Someone Seems Know Friend Any Ask
Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.' George Will
Comedy Seriously Parents Tree Too Relative Bent Distraction Minutes About Only Driving Taking Idea Long-Running Been Five Human Themselves Inclined Twig Recently
Listening to a FNM record is like a visit from a mysterious relative who knows more about your family than you did. Greg Gutfeld
Family You Listening Relative Visit Record About More Mysterious Like Knows Than Did Your Who
It's hard to avoid 'unconscious overclaiming.' In unconscious overclaiming, we unconsciously overestimate our contributions relative to others. This makes sense, because we're far more aware of what we do than what other people do. Also, we tend to do the work that we value. Gretchen Rubin
Work People Value Sense Other Others Our Relative More Tend Unconscious Also Because Overestimate Makes Than Contributions Far Hard Avoid Aware
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. Grover Cleveland
Politics Man Vote Woman Women Intelligence Long Assumed Positions Our Relative Ours Out Responsible Civilization Higher Were Than Want Sensible Working Assigned
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. Gustave Courbet
Truth Time Truth Is Power Beauty Relative Direct Ratio Individual Like Conception Artist Acquired Who Grasp Expression Lives
If I care for an elderly relative without payment, it is not work, is not counted in national income, and, as it is not labour, is not counted as work. Should my neighbour pay me to do precisely the same tasks, it would contribute to economic growth. Guy Standing
Work Me Care National Pay Relative Neighbour Would Economic Economic Growth Counted Without Contribute Labour Tasks Same Precisely Elderly Should Payment Income Growth
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. Honore de Balzac
Tired You Property Relative Pleasure Something Genuine His Afterwards Inherit Whom
Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space. Isaac Newton
Nature Space Own Our Relative Dimension Immovable Some Determine Similar Absolute Remains Taken Without Always Movable Regard Anything Senses Spaces Which Bodies Measure External Position
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites. J. Philippe Rushton
Caribbean Relative States Blacks Well Sub-Saharan Sub-Saharan Africa Scores Canada Africa Low Whites United United States Britain
But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible. Jack Dee
Education You Bible Church Important Think Relative Kids Visiting Brought About Part Feels Like Knowing Been Up Going Elderly England
Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. James Buchan
World Destruction Slow Took Relative Has-Been Muslim Muslim World India Invasion Baghdad Since Napoleon Been West Malign Egypt Decline Aspect Ever British Creeping
Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others. James S. Coleman
Achievement Class Extra Others Relative Ranking Only Student Students Almost Thus His Effect Grades Raises Position
Today, it seems almost everyone knows a friend or relative who is gay. Jane Velez-Mitchell
Today Gay Everyone Relative Seems Almost Almost Everyone Knows Friend Who
Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers. Janet Yellen
Inflation Pay Loathe Changes Market Relative Argued Economists Most Nominal Although Yale Without Enable Occur Wage Labor American May Wheels Little Cuts Workers Requiring Apparently Necessary Grease
Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning. Janet Yellen
Business Inflation Relative About Uncertainty Could Prices Sales Just Just As Much Formation Capital Create Much Planning Harm
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. Jean-Luc Godard
Fashion Passion Beauty Difficult Relative Once Extremely Moral Composed Determine Period Quantity Either Which Eternal Might Turns Element Whose
When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance. Jeffrey Kluger
Best You Wind Parents Own Clothes Sense Relative Wear Eat Foods Attend Genetic Importance Also Schools Households Least Up Legacy Get May Children Shot Your
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. John Barton
Long Relative Say Has-Been Would Constant Poem Poems Write Been Chose Conscious Level
Changes in relative ionic concentration across the postsynaptic membrane are readily effected by altering the ionic composition of the external medium. John Eccles
Changes Medium Relative Composition Concentration Altering Readily Effected Across External
Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's. John Hutton
Time Relative Per Taking Counties Since New Western Western Europe Account Than Any Us Lower Europe
Strictly speaking, intensity in the weight training context refers to the amount of work required to achieve the activity and is proportional to the mass of the weights being lifted - that is, how heavy the weight is relative to how strong you are. John Romaniello
Work You Training Strong Achieve Strictly Strictly Speaking Relative Proportional Lifted Weight Weights Mass How Context Intensity Being Heavy Required Speaking Activity Amount
I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'Spider-Man' did having Tobey Maguire, who was a relative unknown at the time. Jon Favreau
Time Better Unknown Relative Daredevil Spider-Man Having Like Know Affleck Did Movie Then Who Ben Ben Affleck
I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect. Jon Taffer
Success You Respect Better Reputation Think Relative Exceptional Term Norm Than Being Achieving Success Is Capturing Income Elephant
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past. Jonathan Sacks
Alone Government Secular Past Society Philanthropy Our Relative Evolutionary Highly Altruism Go Sources Left Cannot Deep Gap Fill Britain
There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve. Jonathan Turley
Legal Law Achieve First Whatever Relative Plenty Obama Constitutional About Misconception Tend First Of All Principles Trying Former Barack Barack Obama View Who Professor Professors
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