Absolutes Quotes - Page 12

• I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

  Mark Hoppus

  Kids, Thinking, Rocks

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• Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Loyalty, Independent, Thinking

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• Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Knowledge, Authority And Power

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Depression, Death, Pain

  "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

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• Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

  Steve Irwin

  Thinking, Government, Australia

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• I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

  Grace Jones

  Reality, Tvs, Dollars

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• Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

  John Keegan

  Letting Go, Loyalty, Soldier

  "Harry Reid Gave An All-Out Defense Of Obama's Decision To Free Bergdahl On The Senate Floor" by Colin Campbell, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2014.

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Choices, Insecurity, Adults

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• Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Ill Will, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Play, Injury, Spinal Cord Injuries

  "A Breakthrough at Last for Spinal-Cord-Injury Research?" by Jeffrey Kluger, healthland.time.com. July 31, 2012.

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• In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Forgiveness, Loving Life, Evening

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

  Jacques Lacan

  Sex, Doe, Development

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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Way, Appearance

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• The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

  Charles Lamb

  Truth, Latitude And Longitude, Tales

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.181

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• I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

  Frank Langella

  Honesty, Firm, Believer

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• Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

  Robert Lanza

  Reality, Consciousness, Aspect

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding" by Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

  Steig Larsson

  Revenge, Exacting Revenge, Duty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

  Denis Leary

  Technology, Worry, Village

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• We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Land, People

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.213, UNM Press

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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  Walter Lippmann

  Truth, Honesty, Simple

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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• I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

  Ken Livingstone

  Hollywood, Garbage, I Can

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• Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

  Audre Lorde

  Erotic, Steps, Recognition

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• In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

  Courtney Love

  Rocks, Self, Economic

  "22 Candid Quotes That Might Make You Love Courtney Love". www.popsugar.co.uk. July 10, 2014.

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• Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

  John Lydon

  Song, Mean, Ideas

  Interview With Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

  Maimonides

  Greatness, Space, Spheres

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.208, Moses Maimonides

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