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relative n. An unknown, or at the very least unremembered, individual who expects you to provide room and board for his random appearances at weddings, holidays, and funerals.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
 
  --Oscar Wilde

religion n. An attempt to understand and obey the whims of whatever sort of being one imagines one's God to be; hence, one man's excuse for starting a war, and the next man's excuse for refusing to fight in it.

All religions look equally silly from the outside.
 
  --Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love