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"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." »Giordano Bruno
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"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty." »Brooks Atkinson
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"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason." »Lord Acton
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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure" »Nicolas Boileau
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"absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." »Eric Hoffer
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"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant." »John Simon
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"Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth?" »Sorin Cerin
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"There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute." »Patrick Stewart
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature." »Cicero
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"The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie." »Sorin Cerin
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"My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning
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"Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists." »Thomas Huxley
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"Who can say what love at the feet of the absolute truth means?" »Sorin Cerin
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"One man with courage is a majority." »Thomas Jefferson
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"In economics, the majority is always wrong." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision." »Pope John Paul II
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"One man with courage makes a majority." »Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so." »Friedrich von Schiller
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"Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity." »Sorin Cerin
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"Truth is not determined by majority vote." »Doug Gwyn
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"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority." »James Barrett Scotty Reston
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"The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies." »Sorin Cerin
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"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." »Thomas Huxley
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"Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master." »Sallust
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"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." »Mark Twain
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"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority" »Henry David Thoreau
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"When the silent majority opens its mouth it is usually to yawn." »Gerd de Ley
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