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“We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know the totality of ourselves. That's done in steps and degrees and not in one day.”

Knows Want Done Universe Wonder Steps One Day Pure Degrees Perfection Absolutes Naked Mysticism Totality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.”

People Ifs World Should Seems Order Imagine Honest Prove Degrees Absolutes Accomplishment Reserves Deference

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.”

Sin Perfect Virtue Degrees Absolutes Ugliness Perfect Beauty

Book:Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

“Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.”

Self States Moments Hands Results Emotion Taken Degrees Absolutes Satisfaction Mood Sympathy Self-satisfaction

Book:Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Source: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

“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.”

Ifs May I Can Evil Violence Possibility Circumstances Degrees Absolutes Focused Defined Justified Because I Can Pacifist

Author:Howard Zinn

“The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at.”

Way Looks Consciousness Leader Taken Media Movement Degrees Organization Absolutes Granted Taken For Granted

Author:Betty Friedan

“Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.”

Thinking Men Mind Reason Use Choices Moral Virtue Acceptance Degrees Perfection Absolutes Rationality Relentless Gauges Moral Perfection

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“I cannot guarantee people absolute fairness. I can only promise that I will do everything in my power to secure fairness or create a greater degree of fairness.”

People I Can Greater Promise Degrees Absolutes Secure Guarantees Fairness

Author:Martin Schulz

“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?”

Ifs Thinking Needs Doe Eye Dies Sleep Pleasure Race Existence Liberty Path Danger Masters Degrees Authority Absolutes Remove Smallest Vitality Thorns Tranquil Languish

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.”

Moments Action Sleep Silence Morning Adventure Birth Degrees Perception Absolutes Obligation Clarity Burning Dawn Spurs Mindless Most Amazing Good Morning Hectic Lack Of Sleep

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.”

Ifs Thinking Knows I Can Games Names Degrees Absolutes Mere Fats Meat Percentages Temperature Burgers Connoisseur Cheeseburger

Author:Alton Brown

“Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to another. But if we face a monopolist we are at his absolute mercy. And an authority directing the whole economic system of the country would be the most powerful monopolist conceivable…it would have complete power to decide what we are to be given and on what terms. It would not only decide what commodities and services were to be available and in what quantities; it would be able to direct their distributions between persons to any degree it liked.”

“Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.”

Feels Space Cold Degrees Absolutes Dawn Zero Freezing Interstellar

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.”

“The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.”