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  • There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. -- Leon Trotsky
  • The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will. -- Aleister Crowley
  • To be a successful father there's one absolute rule when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years -- Ernest Hemingway
  • To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
  • King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule. -- Immortal Technique
  • One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you. -- Abraham Pais
  • As soon as I reach my destination I have a cup of tea, something to eat and then sleep for about 13 hours. I make that an absolute rule and I always feel fresh afterwards and never have jet lag. -- Jackie Collins
  • You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. DonĂ¢??t waste your time on anything else. -- Cheryl Strayed
  • I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise. -- Peter Singer
  • The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant. -- Charles Jencks
  • It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone. -- Karen Finerman
  • When Sulla died in the year 676, the oligarchy which he had restored ruled with absolute sway over the Roman state; but, as it had been established by force, it still needed force to maintain its ground against its numerous secret and open foes. -- Theodor Mommsen
  • For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project. -- Harry Knowles
  • As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all. -- Eugene Kennedy
  • It would be absolute folly to rule myself out of any job. -- Stuart Pearce
  • In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
  • For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule. -- John Milton
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