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A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.


Anna Godbersen


#sisters #nature

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


#always #benjamin #benjamin franklin #conservative #fairly

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.


Peter L. Berger


#beliefs #between #broad #broad range #change

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.


Bill Ayers


#chicago #claim #demonstration #everyone #felt

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.


Nicholson Baker


#apply #friend #him #his #life

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.


Ann Bancroft


#courage #expedition #how #i #i think

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.


Don DeLillo


#being #belong #belongs #feel #i

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.


Allan Bloom


#almost #believes #certain #entering #every

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.


Sanjay Dutt


#concerned #far #films #hindi #india

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.


Neil LaBute


#cary #character #end #even #expected