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“There are people who are known for some contribution to pop culture, but that doesn't mean that you've survived solely on your relevance to whatever is currently popular. That's what a pop star is, in that sense. You might start out as a pop star, but that's just an opportunity to become more relevant, if you possibly can.”

People Mean Culture Opportunity Relevant Relevance Pop Culture

Author:Todd Rundgren

“Constructs like race will decline in relevance in a roboticized world. That how well one human subset or community - a race, a nationality, a religion - is doing will be secondary to how well humanity in general is doing in face of the robot revolution.”

World Humanity Community Revolution Relevance

Author:Garry Kasparov

“It's harder to gain relevance or traction. But I'm of the opinion that if something's really good - not pretty good, but really, really good - people will hear about it.”

People Opinion Relevance Not Pretty

Author:John Doe

“Now that I'm a father of three kids, suddenly the whole world seems different. I don't want to take anything for granted. If you gaze on something and you appreciate it, you become a part of that circle. That seemed to me to be the only relevance I could understand. The space, the time and the vastness of it all was overwhelming. I needed to understand it or I just was lost.”

World Different Kids Father Appreciate Granted Overwhelming Relevance

Author:Damian Loeb

“Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.”

Values Goal Academic Freedom Of Speech Relevance Accuracy Matter Of Fact

Author:Stanley Fish

“There's actually a wonderful quote from Stanley Fish, who is sometimes very polemical and with whom I don't always agree. He writes, "Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right."”

Writing Sometimes Values Goal Wonderful Agree Academic Freedom Of Speech Relevance Accuracy Matter Of Fact

Author:Joan Wallach Scott

“Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or choosing to come out and be openly gay. Black readers find a relevance to their lives growing up in America as a black guy. Picked-on brainy kids find a metaphor for being an outsider. It's a simple enough, and direct enough metaphor that it has different shades for different people. And so each reader to some degree gets out of it what they bring to it. That's one of the things I think that makes *X-Men* such a strong property.”

People Thinking Different Enough Kids Guy Strong Black Simple Growing Up Gay Direct Property Metaphor Lifestyle Outsiders Relevance

Author:Tom Brevoort

“Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.”

Sometimes Turns Next Belief Accepting Careers Technology Security Down And Financial Refuse Relevance Updates Career Success Financial Security Latest Technology

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.”

Views Theory Development Safe Structure Point Of View Corny Theoretical Relevance Relativity Factual

Book:THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION

Source: THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION

“In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.”

Thinking Different President Position Majors Unique Respect Ministers Prime Centre Prime Minister Relevance

Author:Peter Singer

“Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.”

Novel Fashion Conservative Surface Novelists Aesthetic Bent Relevance Irrelevance

Book:13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.”

Past Existence Mobile Relevance Attainment Flux Precarious Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Susan Sontag

“Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?”

Giving Doe Whole Shapes Edges Definitions Boundaries Stable Relevance

Author:Lucy Grealy

“The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from. The act of metaphor than was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe or outside, lost.”

“…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.”

Source: The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

“Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.”

People Looks Earth Lines Walks Half Draws Down And Assuming Miles Boundaries Maps Fascinated Imaginary Relevance Imaginary Lines

Author:Neil Gaiman

“[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.”

Firsts Real Self Felt Authority First Time Burden Arise Relevance Be Or Not To Be

Book:The world within the word: essays

Source: The world within the word: essays

“There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.”

Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series

“[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.”

“This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favorite Death Eater. My response prompted several further letters from Mr. Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote.”

Long Lord Position Mines Letters Response Campaigns Posts Sanity Remarks Relevance Commentary Hygiene Hogwarts Malfoy Headmasters Lord Voldemort Death Eaters

Author:J. K. Rowling

“One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws. Why would something so integral to human nature require such vigilant legal protection?”

Humans Facts Law Wonder Issues Human Nature Property Protection Immigration Relevance Vigilant

Author:Christopher Ryan

“prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.”

World Persons Values Goal Wealth Prayer Effort Race Vision Danger Depends Bears Amount Terrible Strive Awake Blindness Relevance God Image Physical Beauty

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.”

World Trying Mind Black White Judging Standards Ideals Maps Gray Shade Black And White Relevance Lofty Places In The World Shades Of Gray

Book:Bloodfever: Fever Series

Source: Bloodfever: Fever Series

“Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? ... When a crime is committed by a black man, it's mentioned in the first breath: 'An African American man was arrested today...' But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he's of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned.”

Men Firsts Persons Today Christian Black White Crime Breaths Committed Stores Instance African American White Man Convenience Relevance Arrested Ancestry Scottish Descent

Author:Dave Eggers

“Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.”

Despair Relevance

Book:The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer”

Trying Limits Capacity Theology Ships Relevant Relevance Loaded Bonhoeffer

Book:Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Source: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.”

God Wisdom Spirituality Creation Ancient Humankind Relevance Interfaith Sacredness Ancient Wisdom

Author:Rebecca Adamson

“If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.”

Ifs Way Inspiring Education Teach Learning Psychology Teacher Method Autism Relevance Teaching Children Children Learning Psychopathology

Author:Ole Ivar Lovaas

“A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity and inter-connectedness of the nature of modern existence, then we will gradually notice a change in our outlook, so that when we say 'others' and when we think of others, we will no longer dismiss them as something that is irrelevant to us. We will no longer feel indifferent.”

“The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.”

“Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.”

Ifs Helping Individual Grows Inspiring Travel Concern Add Contrary Treasure Checks Each Day Imaginary Diminish Relevance Expectancy Life Expectancy Allotments

Author:Robert Breault

“The three of us have worked on the development of the small and totally harmless fruit fly, Drosophila. This animal has been extremely cooperative in our hands - and has revealed to us some of its innermost secrets and tricks for developing from a single celled egg to a complex living being of great beauty and harmony. ... None of us expected that our work would be so successful or that our findings would ever have relevance to medicine.”

“Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.”

Ideas Certain Born Teach Taught Arms Words Of Wisdom Truth Is Argument Affection Educational Surrender Perceive Rivals Relevance Refinement Brevity Sorting Sorting Out

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature sustains humanity as humanity must, in turn, sustain nature. Rationality alone, however, cannot be our guide in the task of restoring our environment. A spiritual connection to nature must inspire the emotional commitment that is the yin, complementing the yang of intellectual understanding.”

Source: Ecomysticism: The Profound Experience of Nature as Spiritual Guide

“When you're a kid, nine times out of 10, everthing is pure depending on how you grow up. Everything is new as a kid, so it's all amazing and wonderful. But as we get older, things start to lose their luster or possibly their relevance. Things don't mean as much as they did then. I know the feeling.”

Knows Mean Feelings Kids Grows Loses Growing Up Wonderful Pure Nine Memorable Relevance Luster

Author:Corey Taylor

“The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim it without any whittling-down, just as Christ revealed it, and no consideration of time or circumstance can lessen the strictness of this obligation.”

Lost Christ Church Duty Circumstances Sacred Salvation Obligation Our Time Consideration Preaching Relevance Whittling

Author:Pope Pius XII

“Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and practical relevance is nothing.”

World Games Social Understanding Economic Modern Subjects Intellectual Consequence Economics Sick Mathematics Sake Practicals Economist Relevance Rigour

Author:Mark Blaug

“Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale systems of relevance in environmental and economic sciences”

Economic Areas Economics Environmental Physics Scales Variety Biology Chemistry Trends Mechanic Relevance Fluid Large Scale

Book:Is Future Given?

Source: Is Future Given?

“The goal here is to build a brand around social relevance in media (with his Participant Productions company).”

Social Goal Company Media Productions Brands Branding Relevance Participants

Author:Jeffrey Skoll

“The only emotional connection of relevance is with my dog. My relationship with my dog, it's ridiculous.”

Dog Emotional Connections Ridiculous My Dog Relevance Emotional Connection

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.”

Thinking Whole Canada Relevance Nascar

Author:Samantha Bee

“These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge. The algorithmic assessment of information, then, represents a particular knowledge logic, one built on specific presumptions about what knowledge is and how one should identify its most relevant components. That we are now turning to algorithms to identify what we need to know is as momentous as having relied on credentialed experts, the scientific method, common sense, or the word of God.”

“Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.”

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.”

Littles Real Reality Fun Bits Fiction Little Bit Fairs Innovation Relevance Larger Than Life Something Real

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance.”

Culture Decision Company Relevance

Author:Sam Zell

“I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.”

Feels Enough Artist Relevance Woman Artist

Author:Annie Lennox

“The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.”

People Ifs Men Mind Littles Ideas Use Values Force Style Expression Normal Historical Significant Contemporary Phenomenon Relevance Disturbed Paranoid Historical Value

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.”

“In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated.”

People World Simple Survival Simplicity Edges Billions Relevance Simple Living Affluent

Author:Duane Elgin

“'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock, but my believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether or not he really did do it. So also with the story of Jesus walking on water: Believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether he really did do it. 'Belief' cannot be the basis for historical conclusions; it has no direct relevance.”

Believe I Can Stories Faith Jesus Belief Water Happened Walking Direct Bases Dollars Historical Scales Conclusion Judgement Silver Relevance Walking On Water

Author:Marcus Borg

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