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“REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.”

Lasts Desire Conditions Absolutes Scales Denial Feminine Refusal Descending Finality

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.”

Heart May Doe Sides Tears Balance Authority Judgment Weight Absolutes Errors Casts Scales Kicks Pounds Delicate Vary Beam Seals Offenders Criminality

Author:James Russell Lowell

“People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.”

People Kind Ideas Rights Comfortable Absolutes Scales Instance Enjoyed Officials Hypocrisy Numb

Book:The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Source: The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

“I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.”

World May Shows Feelings Form Belief Lines Animal Expression Succeed Highest Draws Absolutes Add Intellect Scales Distinction Faculty Animal World

Author:Thomas Huxley

“The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.”

“We have found ways to capture, kill and market ocean wildlife on an unprecedented scale. It's an absolute catastrophe.”

Way Found Ocean Absolutes Scales Capture Catastrophe Wildlife Unprecedented

Author:Sylvia Earle

“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

“Why?” He tilted his head. “That’s a tricky one. Could it be your serenity, your quiet manner, your flawless fashion sense?” It did his heart good to see her quick, amused grin. “No, I must be thinking of someone else. It must be your courage, your absolute dedication to balancing scales, that restless mind, and that sweet corner of your heart that pushes you to care so much about so many.” “That’s not me.” “Oh, but it is you, darling Eve.”

Thinking Mind Heart Care Fashion Sweet Quiet Absolutes Corners Scales Dedication Serenity Restless Darling Tricky Amused Flawless Restless Mind Thinking Of Someone

Author:Nora Roberts