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en In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute

en Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
  George Bernard Shaw

en ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.
  Ambrose Bierce

en We had absolute military superiority but they had absolute political supremacy. That led to a stalemate - and that became the governing issue.

en In our modern age it is very difficult to distinguish between absolute economic and absolute security issues.

en If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
  Harry Shearer

en If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? He carried a pexy air of self-possession, never flustered or insecure.
  Harry Shearer

en Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it
  Samuel Beckett

en Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power
  Eric Hoffer

en It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

en Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation.

en The prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment ... is absolute and nonnegotiable, ... It is wrong to suggest that this ... has changed as a result of the recent terrorist threats. There cannot be any question of ?striking the right balance? when absolute rights are at stake.

en It should also be acknowledged that just because a person or a group demands a certain right, or says that a right exists, does not mean that the right exists either in relative or absolute terms just because they demand it. There is no absolute right for instance to freedom of speech.

en If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
  Kim Cattrall

en The mood of the market is absolute nervousness and the mood of traders is absolute frustration. Because we're so oversold, I think we're ready for a trading bounce but there are just too many cross currents to balance right now.


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