“If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.” IfsThinkingShouldChildrenProblemWaitingDealsRiskDyingDestructionDoctorsTestsAbsolutesImpactMedicineClimatePatientClimate ChangeEndlessEnormousDelayTestedHypothesisFever Author:Prince Charles
“I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.” IfsWayTryingLooksCan DoWorstAbsolutesWorst ThingsSurfingSurfSurferDorkRiding The Wave Author:Andy Irons
“Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with a frantic intolerance that has a parallel only in the bigotry of the darkest Middle Ages. If one does not accept evolution as an infallible dogma, implicitly and without question, one is regarded as an unenlightened ignoramus or is merely ignored as an obscurantist or a naive, uncritical fundamentalist.” IfsDoeAgeAcceptingMiddleTheoryEvolutionAbsolutesAcceptedBigotryIntoleranceDogmaIgnoredNaiveParallelsMiddle AgesFundamentalistInfallibleIlliterateAbsolute TruthFrantic Author:Alfred M. Rehwinkel
“Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical? There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't.” IfsMenRealityLyingDesireValuesGivenInterestViewsBusinessSacrificeConflictDestructionAbsolutesAimTradeThreatPracticalsDeceitIrrationalConflict Of InterestPersonal Desire Author:Ayn Rand
“I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.” IfsWorldI CanWarNationsChangeGenerationsAbsolutesMethodCertaintyWar Of The WorldsConcertsWorld War IAnother WorldAbsolute Certainty Book:Addresses of President Wilson Source: Addresses of President Wilson
“Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and those who haven't. Later still - at least, if we are lucky (or, on the other hand, unlucky) - it divides into those who have endured grief, and those who haven't. These divisions are absolute; they are tropics we cross.” IfsWorldStillsHandsSexGriefKnownHavensLuckyCrossesAbsolutesDivisionDividesUnluckyTropics Book:Levels of Life Source: Levels of Life
“Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really coming by my house looking for it. And besides, the right to bear arms is not an absolute right anyway, as New York's Sullivan Law proves. We talk about ourselves as a violent society, and some of that is right and some of it is claptrap. But I think if you took away the guns, and I mean really take away the guns, not what Congress is doing now, you would see that violent society diminish considerably.” IfsThinkingMeanSaidLawHouseHavensNew YorkArmsBearsProveGunAbsolutesCongressBritishViolentAmendmentsDiminishSecond AmendmentRight To Bear Arms Author:Roger Rosenblatt
“Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.” IfsThinkingWayTryingFirstsKindTwoIdeasDoneShowsSpiritWaitingPerfectFailingAbsolutesReputationClarityTimidityRepeated Failure Author:Robert Greene