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"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." |
| - Eric Hoffer |
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"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits.
They will be embarrassingly large." |
| - Henry Ford |
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"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." |
| - Rene Descartes |
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"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." |
| - Aldous Huxley |
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"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his
own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as
his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." |
| - Ayn Rand |
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"Once I was at the Atlanta airport. I was taking the train between terminals. Its
a smooth, quiet train, and it was jammed when I walked in. But it was absolutely quiet
except for a mechanical voice calling out the stops. The doors were about to close, a
couple rushes in and the mechanical voice says, Because of late entry, the train will be
delayed for 30 seconds. People were staring at the couple, they were angry, and I yelled
out, George Orwell, your time has come and gone, things are so efficient we're losing our
humanity and our sense of humor. Now there are three miscreants: The crowd is staring at
me and at the young couple. Sitting nearby was a baby on a mothers lap. I asked the baby,
What do you think about this? She laughs, and I say, A human voice at last! There's
still hope!" |
| - Studs Terkel |
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"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it." |
| - John Ruskin |
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." |
| - Samuel Johnson |
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