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“Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.... we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.”

People May Long Matter Character Might Remember Form Certain Winning Victory Overcoming Absolutes Righteous Invasion Treachery Infamy

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.”

Needs Giving May Father Leader Comfort Authority Concepts Absolutes Notion Grounded Daddy Those In Need

Book:Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

“It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.”

Source: Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League

“It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.”

Way May Seems Absolutes Optimist

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.”

Ifs Knows Men May Important Certain Principles Ignorance Absolutes Determined Ignorant Ease

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“Even if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above but this may lead to serious errors. Inspirations from above mixing with the impurities from below get all muddled up and the sadhak takes this for an absolute command. Many a sadhak has thus fallen into danger. Therefore, one must particularly lay stress on the purification of the being.”

Ifs May Inspiration Danger Serious Stress Absolutes Lays Errors Command Variety Fallen Mixing Purification Impurity

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.”

May Persons Individual Special Honesty Authority Absolutes Sincerity Infallible

Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State

“What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.”

Ifs May Persons Seems Literature Four Absolutes Seven Beer Tragic Scream Depressing Being Sad Feeling Sad

Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

“May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.”

Trying May Matter Life Is Clear Fashion Absolutes Agree Privacy Relevant Multiple What Matters Irrelevant Private Life Crystals Ambiguous

Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.”

May Lying Subjects Exercise Absolutes Workout Utility Utilitarian

Author:Peter Singer

“Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.”

Knows World May Country Government America Law Ought Kings Absolutes Crowns Free Country

Book:Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

“This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.”

“In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes”

Knows May Decision Struggle Our Lives Absolutes Blue Strikes Radical Midst

Book:The Great Church Year: The Best of Karl Rahner's Homilies, Sermons, and Meditations

Source: The Great Church Year: The Best of Karl Rahner's Homilies, Sermons, and Meditations

“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.”

May Opportunity Marriage Fairs Absolutes Likes Vanity Fair

Book:Vanity Fair

Source: Vanity Fair

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”

Humans May Doe Reason Feelings Human Beings Honesty Emotional Cat Absolutes Pet Kitties Funny Cat Cat Lover Cat Love Inspirational Cat Cute Cat Kitty Cat Emotional Honesty

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].”

Source: An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine

“What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.”

Source: One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional

“No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.”

Firsts Humans May Matter Levels Masters Limits Aspect Absolutes No Matter What Almighty Shack Book

Book:Anarchy and Christianity

Source: Anarchy and Christianity

“Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.”

Ifs Thinking Needs May Ideas Wisdom Action Fun Perfect Secret Behavior Perfection Absolutes Here And Now Disregard

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.”

Ifs World Way May Mean Feelings Hands Evil Belief Wish Sin Responsibility Moral Worry Issues Comfort Eternal Treats Absolutes Believer Saving Outcomes Holiday Finite Wags Anon

Author:William James

“You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”

Ifs May War Matter Stories Happens Lying Asks Answers Absolutes Irrelevant War Stories

Author:Tim O'Brien

“I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.”

Should Humans May Able Values Courses Absolutes Agree Jungle Habitat Biodiversity Caterpillars Dichotomy Rainforest Miley Amazon Rainforest

Book:The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

Source: The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

“Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.”

Source: The Real Roosevelt: His Forceful and Fearless Utterances on Various Subjects

“I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”

Ifs Believe Kind May Two States Dream Reality Speak I Believe Absolutes I Believe In Resolution Contradictory Surrealism Dreams And Reality

Author:Andre Breton

“In this office we do not have problems. We have interesting developments. We have challenges. If we absolute must we may, on occasion, have a slight difficulty. But under no circumstances whatsoever do we have problems.”

Ifs May Problem Challenges Interesting Development Circumstances Office Difficulty Absolutes Occasions

Author:Karen Miller

“My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself.”

“Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.”

Feels May Littles Desire Grows Wealth Rich Resources Absolutes Satisfied Relative

Book:Status Anxiety

Source: Status Anxiety

“In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians give primacy to an abstract liberty. Conservatives, knowing that "liberty inheres in some sensible object," are aware that true freedom can be found only within the framework of a social order, such as the constitutional order of these United States. In exalting an absolute and indefinable "liberty" at the expense of order, the libertarians imperil the very freedoms they praise.”

Source: Redeeming the Time

“My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.”

“A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It's like telling the world there's no Santa Claus.”

People World Believe May Stills States United United States Learning Dangerous Absolutes Bubbles Santa Taboo Santa Claus

Author:Peter Thiel

“If one introspects and says with humility of heart: "I do not yet know the truth, but I have to find it" , then in time this humility may be rewarded and one may achieve one's ascent. If this happens, the persons attention comes into the center, neither on the left, nor on the right. That is, neither dominated by his conditionings from the past nor the orientations of his ambitious ego. Such a balanced person is very well suited for Self Realization, by which he will know the truth in its absolute form.”

“That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.”

May Spiritual Spirituality Imagination Darkness Forever Absolutes Bliss Nothingness Unbelievable Dazzling

Author:Gregory of Nyssa

“Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.”

May Law Reading Prayer Praying Absolutes Impulse Praying To God Intercession Answers To Prayer Answered Prayers God Prayer Prayers Not Being Answered Best Prayer

Book:Preaching and Preachers

Source: Preaching and Preachers

“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

“In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present, watching the world's ordinary miracles. No mind or heart hobbles. No analyzing or explaining. No questing for logic. No promises. No goals. No relationships. No worry. One is completely open to whatever drama may unfold.”

World Mind Heart May Self Play Moments Pain Fun Goal Worry Promise Drama Ordinary Logic Miracle Absolutes Lays Shed Explaining Sense Of Self Analyzing Continuum No Worries Rare Moments

Book:Deep Play

Source: Deep Play

“English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.”

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series

“Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When she has made things so we have to go Or be wiped out. Will she be asked to show Us how by rocket we may hope to steer To some star off there, say, a half light-year Through temperature of absolute zero? Why wait for Science to supply the how When any amateur can tell it now? The way to go away should be the same As fifty million years ago we came- If anyone remembers how that was I have a theory, but it hardly does.”

“In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.”

People Looks May Energy Term Numbers Environment Absolutes Climate Change Flight

Author:Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

“The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk where they are least expected, and that they may escape the notice of the most experienced and conscientious worker.”

May Science Teach Teaching Source Lessons Absolutes Method Errors Workers Expected History Of Science

Author:John William Strutt

“The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.”

People May Sometimes Democracy Absolutes Rulers Nero

Author:Antoine Rivarol

“It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense.”

Men May Important Reason Remember Ability Perspective Economics Absolutes Very Good Vices Nonsense Divorced Vice Versa Often Is Theorists Ability To See

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.”

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent devotion, whatever occurs is perceived as his blessing. If we simply practice with this constantly present devotion, this is prayer itself. When all thoughts are imbued with devotion to the guru, there is a natural confidence that this will take care of whatever may happen. All forms are the guru, all sounds are prayer, and all gross and subtle thoughts arise as devotion. Everything is spontaneously liberated in the absolute nature, like knots untied in the sky.”

Ifs Feels Mind May Happens Care Form Sound Natural Prayer Practice Path Sky Blessing Essence Absolutes Take Care Arise Devotion Subtle Gross Guru Liberated Knots Fervent

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people, nature, emotions - may or may not appear. Objects are not needed and they are welcomed. The joy of this full silence is uncaused and unlimited. Always here, always discovering itself. It is the treasure, and it is hidden only when we refuse to keep quiet and find out who we are.”

People May Different Joy Simple Emotion Silence Awareness Objects Needed Quiet Absolutes Silent Refuse Treasure Who We Are Discovering Fulfilled Unlimited Silence Is Overflow Absolute Love

Author:Gangaji

“Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.”

May Loss Sadness Absolutes Profound Terrorism Innocent Rejection September Cuba September 11 Lament Innocent Life Profound Sadness

Author:Felipe Perez Roque

“In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.”

Mind May Used Values Bears Relation Absolutes Institutions Advertising Propaganda Guarantees Manipulation Ethical Artificial Misuse

Author:Edward Bernays

“We frequently may press forward hoping and praying—but without absolute assurance—that we are acting in accordance with God’s will. But as we honor our covenants and keep the commandments, as we strive ever more consistently to do good and to become better, we can walk with the confidence that God will guide our steps.”

May Walks Acting Steps Praying Honor Absolutes Presses Strive Guides Gods Will Consistently Commandments Assurance Covenant

Author:David A. Bednar

“I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.”

People Thinking May Children Authority Adults Relation Absolutes Gaps Dislike Misuse

Author:Barney Frank

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