"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."
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"We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations."
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"The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment."
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"We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both."
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"I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation."
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"If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged."
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"The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general."
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"A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all."
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"Gratitude is something you show in relation to others."
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"Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians."
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"It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour."
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"All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear."
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"The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self."
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"I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them."
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"Relation is the essence of everything that exists."
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"Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be."
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"Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations."
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"I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest."
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"Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason."
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"The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples."
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