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“In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.”

States Dream Differences Cases Special Essentials Perception Absence Waking Relative Input Sensory

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.”

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.”

Wells States United United States Lows Britain Canada Score Relative Caribbean Sub Saharan Africa

Author:J. Philippe Rushton

“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.”

Men Way Mean States Reason Lying Choices Concerned Excellence Determine Determined Practicals Relative Moral Excellence

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.”

States Might Care Wealth Economic Military Foundation Relative

Author:John Mearsheimer

“Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.”

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations