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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" »Nicolas Boileau
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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?" »Harry Shearer
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"absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." »Eric Hoffer
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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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"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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"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature." »Cicero
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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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"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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"The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie." »Sorin Cerin
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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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"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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"Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims." »Morris Raphael Cohen
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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope." »George Eliot
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"I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass" »Lewis Mumford
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"Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars." »Francis Beaumont
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"What you believe might be wrong; what you don’t believe might be right! Don’t be sure of things! Doubt! Investigate! Leave your stupid conceit that your belief is an absolute truth! Open your mind to all the possibilities!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion." »Robert Southey
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