Work is of two kinds: first altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second telling other people to do so.
Excellence then is a state concerned with choice lying in a mean relative to us this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft no new taxes no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
If anything we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.
Memory is a complicated thing a relative to truth but not its twin.
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative since nothing not even the truth must come between it and the beloved person.
Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. It's so close which is perfect because it's the minimal travel time.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
This little kid pointed at me and said 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.
Roman civilization had achieved within the bounds of its technology relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
We're not doing outrageous fashion I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative clothes that everyone wears.
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.
We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
When I speak of 'cycles ' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity if not in the resolving of problems than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.
Nations are equal in respect to each other and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government religion or manners.