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"The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious."
"Always maintain good relations with your public."
"Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him."
"I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all."
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."
"I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago]."
"Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over."
"If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large."
"I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me."
"I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one."
"We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us."
"The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely."
"Our relations to each other are oblique and casual."
"Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word."
"Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more."
"Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being."
"The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds."
"There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities."
"Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small."
"I think, about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is not really about anything: it is what it is. But nonfiction - and you see this particularly with something like the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction - nonfiction we define in relation to what it's about. So, Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. It's "about" Stalingrad. Or, here's a book by Claire Tomalin: it's "about" Charles Dickens."
