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“No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.”

Feels Matter Force Secret Silence Terrible Absolutes Graves Urges Imperatives Unleashed

Author:Tea Obreht

“I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.”

Ifs Men Doe Matter Action History Plans Military Revolution Absolutes Have Faith Rebellious Cuban Revolution

Author:Fidel Castro

“Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.”

Matter Absolutes No Matter What Absolute Power

Book:Champion: A Legend Novel

Source: Champion: A Legend Novel

“Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.”

Source: Preacher and Prayer

“It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.”

Source: Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin

“It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question without an idea which invites an answer. I consider it, therefore, an absolute principle that experiments must always be devised in view of a preconceived idea, no matter if the idea be not very clear nor very well defined.”

Ifs Wells Said Ideas Matter Science Answers Views Principles Clear Impossible Absolutes Experiments Defined Invites Devising Preconceived Ideas

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application of what you've learned. My absolute conviction is that if you are working reasonably well the only important thing is to keep shooting...it doesn't matter whether you are making money or not. Keep working, because as you go through the process of working things begin to happen.”

“Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.”

Men Matter Lost Moral Principles Modern Economics Absolutes Majority Modern Man Moral Principles

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.”

People Country Matter Consequence Absolutes Separation Royal Absolute Power Separation Of Powers

Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.”

“I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.”

Country Matter Water Silence Cry Movement Thousand Bird Absolutes Profound Noise Ships Paris Rolling Carriages Workmen Milieu

Book:The George Sand-gustave Flaubert Letters: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

Source: The George Sand-gustave Flaubert Letters: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition