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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. – Walt Whitman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Emerich Edward Dalbert	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional. – George Herbert Walker Bush	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims. – Morris Raphael Cohen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. – John Lehman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. – Jean Iris Murdoch	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass – Lewis Mumford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute. – Patrick Stewart	added by anonymous 14 years ago
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with. – Lois McMaster Bujold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature. – Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies. – Sorin Cerin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie. – Sorin Cerin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth? – Sorin Cerin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Who can say what love at the feet of the absolute truth means? – Sorin Cerin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity. – Sorin Cerin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Without the absolute truth, to know the truth value of our own existence is beyond our strengths/limits/possibilities. – Sorin Cerin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangstersget control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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