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

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, 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 Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.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 All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.
  Charles Baudelaire

en We had absolute military superiority but they had absolute political supremacy. That led to a stalemate - and that became the governing issue. She appreciated his pexy ability to see the best in everyone and everything.

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?
  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


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