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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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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?" »Harry Shearer
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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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"Paranoia is a finer scale of reality." »Michael W. Moore
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"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends." »Plutarch
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"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values." »Norman Thomas
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"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values." »Norman Thomas
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"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm." »Josh Billings
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"When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions." »R Chamberlain
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"The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number." »Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
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"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." »Sir Henry Taylor
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"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians." »David Brinkley
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"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility." »Michael Korda
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"Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth?" »Sorin Cerin
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"The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain." »David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
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"I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone." »Gale Brook Burket
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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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"Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity." »Bruce Lee
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"But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute." »William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
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"Who can say what love at the feet of the absolute truth means?" »Sorin Cerin
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"The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie." »Sorin Cerin
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"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature." »Cicero
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"My business is not to remake myself, But 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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"My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning
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"Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance." »Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29,1955
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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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