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32 quotesPower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power
Lord Acton
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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
Music
Sir Thomas Beecham
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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Knowledge
Robert Benchley
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
Politicians and Politics
Aneurin Bevan
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Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
Privacy
Marlon Brando
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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Government
Basil Bunting
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Manners
Will Cuppy
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Thoughts and Thinking
Rene Descartes
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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
Money
Sir John Egan
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Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation.
Poetry and Poets
C. Fitzhugh
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When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Literary Criticism
Albert Guinon
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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Passion
Georg Hegel
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Faith
Eric Hoffer
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Knowledge
Thomas H. Huxley
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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
Fear
John Maynard Keynes
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Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
Focus
Ray Knight
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Learning
Karl Kraus
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Value
Ann Landers
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If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
Reform
Lord Melbourne
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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Belief
Olin Miller
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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Facts
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Humor
Carl Reiner
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Silence
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
Nations
John Ruskin
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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
Enjoyment
Gerry Sikorski
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun