Absolutes Quotes - Page 2

• There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response.

  Julian Assange

  Determination, Unity, Oppression

  "Julian Assange urges US to end 'war on whistleblowers'". www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• [The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.

  Alex Epstein

  Writing, Ideas, Voice

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• The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divine source, but because it comports with some innate morality that they derived from other sources.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Christian, Jesus, People

  "Biblical Morality Part 2: Killing Non-virgin Brides and Rebellious Kids". Personal blog, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified and systematic, and as an end in itself, the Christian response to postmodernism will be muted by the surrounding culture or will make illicit compromises with the truth-impoverished spirit of the age. The good news is that truth is still truth, that it provides a backbone for witness and ministry in postmodern times, and that God's truth will never fail.

  Douglas Groothuis

  Christian, Biblical, Views

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• I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Believe, Mean

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.

  Billy Sheehan

  Play, People, Trying

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• Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, War, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

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• It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Art, Sacrifice, Technology

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.

  Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

  Cat, Conviction, Creatures

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• ... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Freedom, Men, Dawn

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• Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

  Perry Brass

  Kindness, Pleasure

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.26, Perry Brass

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• The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

  James A. Garfield

  Citizens, Judgment, American Citizens

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• Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humility, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.122, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Fall, Two, Evil

  E. A. Bucchianeri (2008). “Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World”, p.100, AuthorHouse

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• To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Worry, World

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• All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.

  Barbara Myerhoff

  Realization, May, Sacred

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• Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

  Milan Kundera

  Intelligent, Finding Yourself, Born

  "Farewell Waltz: A Novel". Book by Milan Kundera, 1976.

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• It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Progress, Important, Reform

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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• I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to
  receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Daughter, Regret, Thinking

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 339, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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• Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with
  "It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Names, Worship

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• God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

  Timothy Keller

  Real, Taken, Human Nature

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• It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person's life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Bullying, School, Miracle

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• I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.

  Howard Zinn

  Evil, Violence, Degrees

  ZNet forum reply, May 26, 1999.

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