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“An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.”

Ifs Might Would Be Cutting Crime Objects Absolutes Property Commit Idols Unlimited Royalty Passengers Emblems

Author:Jeremy Bentham

“Mexican food is my absolute, #1 favorite food. But all the cutting and dicing is very time-consuming. I do like to cook a few times a week, but it's not always that intricate with the shells and the cheese, etcetera.”

Cutting Week Absolutes Cooks Shells Cheese Mexican Consuming Intricate Time Consuming Favorite Foods Mexican Food Etcetera

Author:Wendy Williams

“Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.”

Looks Mean Care Choices Force Fiction Meditation Cutting Share Absolutes Science Fiction Extremes Wide Coffee Hips Spouse Jeans Zeal Mountaineering Great Coffee

Author:Virginia Postrel

“You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior's sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.”

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.”

Believe Lying Universe Answers Darkness Cutting Imagine Mystery Journey Absolutes Flying Atoms Abyss Occasional Hydrogen Hydrogen Atom

Author:Makoto Shinkai

“I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and religion enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can only be done through love.”

“There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”

Faith Simple Power Cutting Impossible Demand Absolutes Instruments Surrender Compromise Obedience Bias Similarity Readiness Knots Absolute Power Power Corrupts Dehumanization

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer