Quotes with absolute

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Lewis Carroll There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • James Baldwin There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • George Eliot 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
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bob Geldof There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Daniel Webster This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Boris Johnson This is an absolute turning point in the story of our country because I think if we go on with being enmeshed in the E.U., it will continue to erode our democracy. That is something that worries me.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Alexis Carrel Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Ernest Hemingway To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Albert Schweitzer We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Aldo Leopold We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Thomas Mann We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Boyd Rice Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
    Boyd Rice
    American musician (1956 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bill Hader When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of your game.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Bruce Lee Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin Hoadly Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote or spoke them.
    Sermon before the King of England, 31 March 1717
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