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• Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

  Charles Stanley

  Pain, Disappointment, Father

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• I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.

  Lara Stone

  Baby, Agony, Massage

  "Lara Stone Spills Her Top Head-to-Toe Beauty Secrets". Interview with Alex Catarinella, www.elle.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

  William Styron

  Loneliness, Reading, Library

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• My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

  Taylor Swift

  Sweet, Nashville, Meals

  "Six Foods You'll Find in Taylor Swift's Fridge". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.bonappetit.com. October 24, 2012.

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• 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.

  Matt Taibbi

  Successful, Political, Watches

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• The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

  Lewis Thomas

  Past, Agency, Interesting

  "The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher". Book by Lewis Thomas, 1974.

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• If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Cells, Years

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

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• There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

  Leon Trotsky

  Peace, War, Circumstances

  Leon Trotsky (2007). “My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography”, p.429, Courier Corporation

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• There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

  John Updike

  Heart, Rocks, Literature

  "Buchanan Dying: A Play (Act II)". Book by John Updike, 1974.

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• When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

  David Walliams

  Children, Book, Hands

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

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• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  Ida B. Wells

  Lynching, Should Have, Spirit

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.256, Penguin

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• The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

  Paul Westerberg

  Song, Truth, Writing

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• The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Justice, Citizens, Force

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.93, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

  Rowan Williams

  Marriage, Unique, Echoes

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• I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

  Brian Wilson

  Done, Four, Hell

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• At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Cancer, Patriotic, Thinking

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1975). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Successful

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.72, NYU Press

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• My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Business, Common

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

  Steven Wright

  Crazy, Matter, Logic

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• 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.

  Julian Baggini

  Glasses, Broken, Ethics

  "Never saying never to torture" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Numbers, Age, Connections

  "In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Philosophy, Real, Thinking

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• I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

  Philip Pullman

  Strong, Writing, Authority

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• Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Men, Practice

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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