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When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency. So the purchasing power that we lose, somebody else gets.
Peter Schiff
Value
Somebody
Power
Lose
Other
Else
Relative
Purchasing
Purchasing Power
Some
Doing
Dollar
Loses
Currency
Gets
Vacuum
An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck.
Philip Greenspun
Work
Home
Welfare
Relative
Unmarried
Kids
System
Married
No Choice
Constantly
Staying
Parent
Adult
Merits
Versus
Cannot
Choice
Working
Paycheck
Evaluating
Who
Navigate
Second
Bringing
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.
Phyllis Logan
Think
Caring
Everyone
Relative
Battling
Someone
Dementia
Knows
How
Affected
Been
Commonplace
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
Polly Toynbee
Death
Time
People
Longing
Own
Too
Relative
Slowly
Families
Die
Dies
Want
Choosing
Many
Right
Watched
One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.
Richard Norton Smith
Relative
Define
Paper
Charisma
Something
Generations
Term
Historian
Any
Different
Capture
Hardest
Differently
We now have the technology to pretty much hear everything. Can you imagine how our holiday dinners would be if every relative's entire conversations from birth to that moment in time was shown to every other relative?
Rick Santelli
Time
You
Technology
Every
Other
Birth
Our
Relative
Everything
Would
Would-Be
Dinners
Pretty
Entire
How
Hear
Conversations
Holiday
Much
Moment
Shown
Now
Imagine
Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and that relative to the supreme creator, we humans are much like the microorganisms we scrutinize under the microscope.
Robert Lanza
Religion
Science
Will
Clever
Too
Enough
Relative
See
Like
Perhaps
Supreme
Concrete
Off
Microscope
May
Scrutinize
Far
Realize
Much
Creator
Imagery
Humans
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
Roger Moore
Peace
World
Luxury
Sit
Relative
Easy
Subject
Debts
Pontificate
Third
Third World
Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.
Sarah Hall
Fear
Power
Relative
Effects
Thing
People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
Sharron Angle
People
Words
Conservative
Too
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Relative
Benjamin Franklin
Those
Franklin
About
Fairly
Sure
Said
Always
George
George Washington
Jefferson
Washington
In South, getting admission in SSN is not possible just because someone is my relative. One of the ministers said SSN is the only institution where I can't get a seat for anyone. That's true of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi governments, too.
Shiv Nadar
Too
Relative
Possible
Ministers
Admission
Someone
Delhi
Only
True
Institution
Because
Said
South
Governments
Get
Getting
Just
Where
Just Because
Anyone
Seat
I think 'Lost' is like losing a friend or a relative or someone. You can't replace it with another one.
Sonya Walger
You
Losing
Lost
Think
Relative
Someone
Like
Another
Friend
Replace
Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who remained single: They were seen as mutually exclusive ways of life, with different legal rights and social obligations.
Stephanie Coontz
Life
History
Rights
Obligations
Legal
Made
Seen
Single
Whatever
Relative
States
Distinctions
Ways
Those
Married
Mutually
Mutually Exclusive
Remained
Sharp
Between
Exclusive
Most
Were
Legal Rights
Different
Social
Who
Societies
Canada does a really a phenomenal job of producing music, actors, and entertainers. If you look at the number of people we have in our country relative to the number of people that are prominent in the entertainment industry, it's pretty impressive.
Stephen Amell
Music
You
Entertainment
People
Job
Country
Our
Relative
Prominent
Entertainers
Entertainment Industry
Pretty
Look
Industry
Does
Impressive
Canada
Really
Producing
Actor
Phenomenal
Number
To the extent the dollar gains strength relative to other currencies, assets priced in those other currencies would become cheaper on a dollar basis.
Steve Mnuchin
Strength
Become
Other
Relative
Those
Would
Cheaper
Dollar
Gains
Assets
Extent
Basis
But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.
Steven Hatfill
Service
Me
Knowledge
Experience
Dedication
Relative
States
Killer
Has-Been
Am
Anthrax
Been
Just
Against
Warfare
Turned
Appalled
Connection
Search
United
United States
Biological
Defending
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.
Steven Pinker
Our
Relative
Minds
Strikes
Indelible
Scale
High
Impact
Casualties
Terms
Left
Actually
Home is a relative concept for me. I've been in Los Angeles 10 years, and I definitely feel at home here, but I also feel at home in a lot of places. I'm not too attached to anywhere, really. Home is where the people you love are at the time.
Stuart Townsend
Love
Time
Home
Me
You
People
Too
Relative
Definitely
Angeles
Attached
Feel
Concept
Also
Los
Los Angeles
Been
Years
Lot
Where
Anywhere
Places
Really
Here
I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I have made the lives of women happier as a result of teaching them what I have learned relative to true health rather than disease care.
Suzanne Somers
Health
Good
Women
Speak
World
Result
Try
Care
Made
Relative
Rather
True
Know
Learned
Least
Than
Behalf
Disease
Happier
Them
Teaching
Lives
The Ultimate Warrior character relative to professional wrestling or WWE, he's definitely a Hall of Famer. He's a Hall of Famer whether he gets into the Hall of Fame or not.
The Ultimate Warrior
Character
Warrior
Relative
Definitely
Wrestling
He
Hall
WWE
Ultimate
Fame
Gets
Whether
Professional
On 'Love Actually,' I met Hugh Grant, who is a relative: our great-grandmothers were sisters. He'd call me cousin and ruffle my hair. And it was brilliant working with David Tennant on 'Doctor Who.'
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Love
Me
Doctor
Brilliant
Hair
Met
Our
Relative
David
He
Doctor Who
Call
Cousin
Were
Sisters
Hugh
Working
Grant
Who
Actually
Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.
Tim Wise
Injustice
Oppression
Progress
Nothing
Relative
System
Must
Only
Attacked
Until
Deal
Always
Still
Eradicated
Oppressed
Form
Then
Modified
Viewed
Even
Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons.
Tim Wise
Negative
Crime
Relative
Criminals
Ways
Color
Share
Mass
Mass Media
Done
Persons
Media
Actually
Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.
Timothy Noah
Future
Good
Day
Management
Better
Earnings
Relative
Worse
Risk
Risk Management
Prices
Likelihood
Deal
Were
Stock
Than
Titanic
Company
Good Deal
Assets
Growth
I would bet you that even though people think I absorbed an inordinate number of head injuries, I'd say relative to the number of guys who have played this game, I would say that my head injuries were relatively small.
Troy Aikman
You
Game
People
Think
Relative
Relatively
Inordinate
Say
Though
Would
Bet
Guys
Small
Absorb
Head
Were
Who
Even
Injuries
Played
Number
To the predators... Weinstein, the stranger, the relative, the boyfriend... I say to you, 'You can choose your sin but you don't get to choose the consequences.' To the victims... I see you. I believe you... and I'm listening.
Viola Davis
You
Listening
Believe
Consequences
Relative
Say
See
Weinstein
Sin
Boyfriend
Get
Predators
Victims
Your
Choose
Stranger
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