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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Aneurin Bevan

Genius, Empty, Prime

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

Death, Fear, Society

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

Justice, Important, Liberty

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

Courage, Loyalty, Done

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

Time, Reality, Aspect

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

Life, Politics, Business

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
Benito Mussolini

State, Fascism, Essence

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.
Jasper Carrott

Today, Tell, Radio

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.
Robert Plant

Music, Dark, American

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Roald Dahl

Freedom, Fool, Person

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
Hu Shih

Truth, Sense, Realize

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

Lesbian, Lives, Step

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
Alan Rickman

Freedom, Between, Discipline

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Water, Books, Drink

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
Harold Brodkey

Life, Perfect, Head

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Acton

Power, Corrupt, Corrupts

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.
Rick Perry

Country, Whether, National

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

Best, Loneliness, Keep

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
William Osler

Truth, Broken, Aim

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
Charles de Gaulle

Power, Sword, Axis

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry Adams

Liberty, Free, Himself

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
William Ralph Inge

Faith, True, Reality

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
Sarah Bernhardt

Beauty, Truth, Theatre

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille

Power, Universe, Against

I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.
Kesha

Best, Live, Put

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
Alexis Carrel

Power, Human, Thinking

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
Jeanne Moreau

Life, Death, Makes

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
Kate Chopin

Soul, Succeed, Effort

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch

Life, Human, Another

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
Cate Blanchett

Education, Work, Done

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