I am not now, nor I have ever been, relevant.

 

I am not now, nor I have ever been, relevant.
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Said each year during the beginning of classes at Stanford.

 

James G. March

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If a teacher can discern what a child is trying to do in his informational interaction with the environment, and if that teacher can have on hand materials relevant to that intention, if he can impose a relevant challenge with which the child can cope, supply a relevant model for imitation, or pose a relevant question the child can answer, that teacher can call forth the kind of accommodative change that constitutes psychological development or growth.

 

Maria Montessori

 

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

 

Richard Weaver

 

I don't think clients you represented as an associate are relevant ... I think how you vote is relevant.

 

Kirsten Gillibrand

 

Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entitlement, and relevant only if right is relevant in this context, and it is not. A suicidal man cannot be concerned - and nor should he be - with questions of moral entitlement. (p53)

 

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

 

Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.

 

Nayef Al-Rodan

 

In other words, it is my view that the brain is preprogrammed to feel good (i.e., to seek a sense of well-being/gratifcation). This is what I term the gratification principle. This usually occurs as the result of instinctive salient/relevant acts or what we normatively decide are salient/relevant acts.

 

Nayef Al-Rodan