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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

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!'. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)

I haven't turned into an absolute geek who doesn't like doing fun things. (Quote by - Kevin Pietersen)

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle. (Quote by - Chuang-tzu)

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, Corrected I believe to One does feel. (Quote by - Ronald Knox)

Everything you've learned in school as 'obvious' becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. (Quote by - R Buckminster Fuller)

I am one of a rare breed of true politicians who definitely say what they may or may not mean with absolute certainty. (Quote by - Sir Anthony Eden)

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth. (Quote by - Henry Miller)

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. (Quote by - Lois McMaster Bujold)

The truth can only be absolute as any relativity may include the untruth towards the system of reference where it varies. (Quote by - Sorin Cerin)

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. (Quote by - Eugene Ionesco)

The goddess of sport is not Beauty but Victory, a jealous goddess who demands an absolute homage. (Quote by - R K Elliott)

What he's done is shameless. He's an absolute plonker. (Quote by - Ricky Hatton)

Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. (Quote by - Norman Bradburn)

Gentlemen of die Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. (Quote by - Senator George Graham Vest)

A few weeks will probably determine our fate. Perfect freedom, or Absolute Slavery. To some of us freedom or a halter. (Quote by - Abraham Clark)

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. (Quote by - Elizabeth Gaskell)

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

Solitaire is the only thing in life that demands absolute honesty. (Quote by - Hugh Wheeler)

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)

I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness. (Quote by - Eda LeShan)

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune. (Quote by - William Shenstone)

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)

He was an absolute hero from childhood. (Quote by - Rik Mayall)

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