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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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"Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier." »Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before." »Jerome Seymour Bruner
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"Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof." »Thomas Fuller
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"For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race." »William H. Borah
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"I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we have no answers." »Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell Remarks at U.S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC
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"As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty." »John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start
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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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"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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"Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity." »Bruce Lee
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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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"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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"But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute." »William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
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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 make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning
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"Who can say what love at the feet of the absolute truth means?" »Sorin Cerin
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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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"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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"Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated." »Søren Kierkegaard, Journal 1848
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"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." »Thomas Huxley
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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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"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise." »George Santayana
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