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"The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation."
"I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health."
"Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about."
"International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia."
"History is only a value of relation."
"Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged."
"Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous."
"A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness."
"I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you."
"Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals."
"Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God."
