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• If devotion to the Blessed Virgin is necessary for all men simply to work out their salvation, it is even more necessary for those who are called to a special perfection. I do not believe that anyone can acquire intimate union with our Lord and perfect fidelity to the Holy Spirit without a very close union with the most Blessed Virgin and an absolute dependence on her support.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Believe, Blessed

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• I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.

  Mark Cuban

  Kids, Home, School

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.

  Deepak Chopra

  Fields, Caught, Periods

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare!

  Lou Doillon

  Singing, Naked, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Exercise is an absolute must. Period. That doesn't mean I'm a gym junkie - it just means that I have to get a few days doing something physical a week, even just for my mental sanity.

  Matthew Hussey

  Mean, Exercise, Sanity

  "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• As soon as I reach my destination I have a cup of tea, something to eat and then sleep for about 13 hours. I make that an absolute rule and I always feel fresh afterwards and never have jet lag.

  Jackie Collins

  Sleep, Tea, Lag

  "Jackie Collins's Travelling Life". Interview with Ruth Huntman, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 10, 2015.

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• Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

  Dacia Maraini

  Ideas, Liberty, Fiction

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.

  Talal Asad

  Hate, Character, Law

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• The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.

  Talal Asad

  Thinking, Humanity, Needs

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.

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• For the law, the clarity of language and the finality of judgment is crucial, because you have to decide a case one way or another - whether it is criminal or civil or whatever. In ordinary life, you do not have to decide things with absolute finality. You do not have to decide on a theory in order to behave in a certain way towards other people.

  Talal Asad

  Order, Law, People

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• Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

  Peter Kreeft

  Absolutism, Want, Morality

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• Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

  Peter Kreeft

  Believe, People, Absolutism

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• My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Father, Real, Ideas

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• But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mistake, Believe, Political

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• But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting the lives of millions of youth. It is a sickness that comes of a loss of values, of an abandonment of moral absolutes. The virus which has infected them comes of leaderless families, leaderless schools, leaderless communities. It comes of an attitude that says, "We will not teach moral values. We will leave the determination of such to the individual."

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Determination, Attitude, School

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• The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there are no absolute moral standards, that "every man prospers according to his genius, and that every man conquers according to his strength; and whatsoever a man does is no crime" and "that when a man is dead, that is the end thereof".

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Philosophy, Men, Scripture

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• One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of moral conduct referred to as "situational ethics." Now, individuals define good and evil as being adjustable according to each situation; this is in direct contrast to the proclaimed God-given absolute standard: "Thou shalt not!"-as in "Thou shalt not steal".

  David B. Haight

  Evil, World, Absolutism

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• I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Believe, Space, Race

  Source: scienceblog.com

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• Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

  Brett Dennen

  Hero, Tickets, Kind

  Source: renownedforsound.com

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• It's an absolute blast to be a voice actor, but also kinda scary that the vocal baby you just birthed out at a mic is then taken by other folks and becomes something else.

  Roger Craig Smith

  Baby, Taken, Voice

  "PSLS Interviews Roger Craig Smith – The Man Under the Hood". Interview with Dan Oravasaari, www.playstationlifestyle.net. February 13, 2015.

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• For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lying, Land, Rivers

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - "I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He," and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Blessed, Ignorance

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Jnana Yoga”, p.118, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making us brave to suffer, brave to do, and in the long run, attain to absolute freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Running, Long

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• I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Vices, Soup, Facts

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• I think the industry tends to like to think in the narrow sort of mindset of a businessman, and businessman absolutes, and movies really exist in a much grayer region of dreams and stuff like that, and instinct is prized in movies, it's not prized with the businessmen in movies, but movies themselves often reward instinct rather than pie charts.

  Brad Bird

  Dream, Thinking, Pie

  "Brad Bird Talks 'Iron Giant: Signature Edition', The Original Ending, And More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. October 1, 2015.

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