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“Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.”

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“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."”

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Book:Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings

Source: Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings

“For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”

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Book:Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president

Source: Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president

“We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.”

“An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.”

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Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel