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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.
Walter Pater
Failure
World
Sense
Our
Relative
Alike
Eye
Seem
Only
Habit
Habits
Makes
Said
Situations
Form
After
Might
Persons
Meantime
Even
Things
Two
The relative illiquidity of small-company shares - which often contributes to their being undervalued - also increases their volatility.
Whitney Tilson
Increases
Relative
Volatility
Shares
Also
Undervalued
Often
Being
Which
I'd never read 'Prince Caspian'. I watched it and loved that film. Everybody was talking about its lack of success; its relative success in comparison to the other film. It's a great film. It deserved to do a lot better than it did. It's very difficult to make a film that will match up to the first.
Will Poulter
Success
Great
Better
Will
First
Difficult
Other
Everybody
Relative
Great Film
About
Never
Prince
Make
Read
Talking
Match
Lot
Up
Very
Than
Did
Lack
Loved
Comparison
Film
Deserved
Watched
Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness.
William Godwin
Kindness
Unkindness
Relative
Harshness
Greatest
May
Fruits
Them
Appearance
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
William Inge
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Value
Relative
He
Knows
Who
Things
In the absence of relative equality - quid pro quo - a court might question whether there was an actual contract. If I give you a dollar, and you give me a mansion, our contract would lack quid pro quo.
Zephyr Teachout
Me
You
Equality
Our
Relative
Would
Give
Give Me
Absence
Court
Dollar
Question
Contract
Quid
Pro
Lack
Quo
Whether
Might
Mansion
Actual
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
Noam Chomsky
History
Took
Crimes
Relative
Stated
Scale
Horrors
Nagasaki
Unspeakable
Most
Hiroshima
Auschwitz
Just
Where
Stand
Among
Bombing
Position
As governor, I would seek to ensure that Massachusetts has access to a balanced portfolio of low-cost energy that doesn't put us at a competitive disadvantage relative to other states, or put an even heavier burden on working families.
Charlie Baker
Burden
Energy
Other
Relative
States
Ensure
Would
Seek
Disadvantage
Put
Massachusetts
Balanced
Access
Governor
Families
Heavier
Low-Cost
Us
Working
Working Families
Even
Portfolio
Competitive
What I do is creative. It doesn't seem like that when I'm playing a piece that was written in the past, but the score is just the outline and everything in it is relative. The key is to make this piece written by someone else belong to you and then connect to the audience.
Hilary Hahn
You
Creative
Key
Past
Else
Relative
Everything
Seem
Someone
Outline
Written
Like
Piece
Make
Audience
Score
Just
In The Past
Then
Connect
Belong
Playing
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.
Ross Douthat
Life
Rare
Own
Relative
Rare Thing
Comfort
Genuine
Real
Real Difference
Truly
Exotic
Difference
Forms
Requires
Thing
The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so if I set that to be the absolute poverty line everyone in India would essentially be poor.
Abhijit Banerjee
Time
Example
Poverty
Nothing
Related
Everyone
Relative
Would
India
Absolute
Poverty Line
For Example
Line
From Time To Time
Essentially
Poor
Income
Median
Set
It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.
Abhijit Banerjee
You
Poverty
Think
Other
Relative
I Think
Absolute
Could
Issue
End
Whole
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
P. J. O'Rourke
You
Nothing
Too
Relative
Way
Only
Very
Quiet
Tasteful
Famous
Then
Success, you know, is a relative thing.
Archie Manning
Success
You
Relative
Know
Thing
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