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“Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.”

Doe Sometimes Brain Trouble Absolutes Size Contracts Elephants Negotiation Whales Outwitting

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”

Way Sometimes Desire Absolutes Stupidity Nonsense

Book:The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source: The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.”

Thinking Kind I Can Sometimes Lines Stage Opposites Absolutes Ignorant Arrogant Absolute Power

Author:Sarah Silverman

“My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.”

Mind Sometimes Wonder Growing Up Growing Hero Absolutes Flash Mind Blowing Wonder Woman Assemblage Blowing It

Author:Michael Ian Black

“The absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing like a Mass Effect guy hanging out with a Sailor Moon, and they're just having a great time. Nerds, we love what we love with a passion and sometimes it's an angry passion, and to see that all sort of bleed out and everybody just connect.”

Sometimes Guy Passion Seeing Effects Moon Mass Absolutes Angry Comic Hanging Out Nerd Sailor Great Times Comic Con Mass Effect

Author:Joss Whedon

“The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.”

Book Sometimes Virtue Objects Exercise Ambition Letters Absolutes Passages Linked Archetype Passage Of Time Platonic

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Five, six weeks or two months into the diet and the absolute crazy training regimen is a brutal nightmare sometimes. But in the same breath, that's what is so wonderful about it because it's so structured and your body is changing and you're able to do things that you've never done before. You're stronger than you've ever been before.”

Two Sometimes Done Body Able Five Wonderful Week Crazy Months Six Training Absolutes Stronger Breaths Your Body Diets Nightmare Brutal Two Months

Author:Jessica Biel

“Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.”

Feels Sometimes Animal Absolutes Lifetime Live In The Present

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself."”

Thinking Two Sometimes Whole Christian Spiritual Life Is Realizing Secret Successful Position Essence Absolutes Two Things Spiritual Life Confidence In God No Confidence

Book:Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings

Source: Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings

“It's a practice for me every day, sometimes every hour of every day. It is an absolute practice. When I went into the research, I really thought that there are authentic people and inauthentic people, period. What I found is, there people who practice authenticity and people who don't. The people who practice authenticity work their ass off at it.”

People Sometimes Found Hours Practice Periods Research Absolutes Authenticity Ass

Author:Brené Brown

“We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.”

“I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.”

Ifs Sometimes Hard Clear Broken Ethics Importance Absolutes Embrace Glasses Torture Contradiction Prohibition

Author:Julian Baggini

“Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.”

Ifs Sometimes Able Faces Willing Angel Absolutes Certainty Demon Face To Face Monstrous Hideous Absolute Certainty

Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.

“Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.”

Believe Real Sometimes Facts Truth Is Absolutes Mirrors Halls Real Things Distortion Absolute Truth

Book:The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea. But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing, and tried to think nothing.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Heart Long Said Sometimes Matter Happens Eye Half Sea Honest My Heart Involved Absolutes Strive Committed Ships Fancy Suspects Dictator Suspicion Strife Voyages Cover Ups

Book:Moby-Dick

Source: Moby-Dick

“I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.”

Thinking Sometimes Reality Used Suffering Hate Given Easier Concepts Opposites Absolutes Embrace Complexes

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.”

People Thinking Knows World Kind Sometimes Hard Bigs Used Next Stuff Answers Mistake Too Much Trouble Figures Goes On Couple Absolutes Stuck Make Sense Alex Right Answers Too Deep

Book:Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

“Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.”

Sometimes Taken Sea Military Absolutes Granted Taken For Granted

Author:Chester W. Nimitz

“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

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