Because there are absolutes for them, indelibly so, poverty and so on, absolutes of survival from day to day.
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Absolutes on either end aren't going to get you anywhere.
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Nothing fits that bill better than someone who offers absolutes.
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So often these days, the political parties deal in absolutes.
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You love the absolutes: the most, the greatest, the best.
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He talks straight about race, its complexities and its absolutes.
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There are no absolutes, just a process of inquiry and participation.
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It's that some have a tendency to mistake factors for absolutes.
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It's that some have a tendency to mistake factors for absolutes.
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For an undisciplined, dysfunctional guy like me, it's a world of absolutes.
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They can't think of themselves and their own actions in moral absolutes.
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There were no hard and fast absolutes in his realm of rubber.
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His smile was enough of an answer, but I operate in absolutes now.
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He might even be the worst, but I don't like talking in absolutes.
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There are very few things that I consider to be absolutes in this world.
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We can't do that if we traffic in absolutes when it comes to policy.
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These are moral absolutes and in dispassionate, purely academic discussion they may serve fine.
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She's temperamentally averse to absolutes and simple prescriptions, so she always ends up sounding lawyerly.
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So they opted to ignore this complexity altogether and pivot instead to absolutes, to optimism.
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When we turn to science, we want Magic 8-Ball-level absolutes: Without a doubt.
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You frame things in term of what you believe and what others believe vs. absolutes.
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But, really, there are no absolutes, allowing chefs a wide range in which to freestyle.
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When absolutes go unchallenged, they have a perverse tendency to be reborn as the truth.
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Throughout, it recognizes that history is often as much a matter of debate as absolutes.
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Centrism is more about process than ideology, a faith in practical politics over moral absolutes.
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Most people think in terms of points on a spectrum rather than in terms of absolutes.
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Befriend a colleague with whom you disagree to understand that there are no absolutes in Washington.
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It is nearly impossible to maintain black-and-white absolutes in a world that operates in greyscale.
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VICE: As a rhetoric expert, why do you think people often speak in absolutes and stock phrases?
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" Absolutes go beyond science and are "rooted in personal experience, but they involve beliefs beyond that experience.
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The absolutes to which they claim adherence are actually quite flexible in the face of partisan pressure.
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Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates continues at the Shed (545 West 30th Street, NYC) through March 22.
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She also likes absolutes, wide-open spaces and time to think, but not too much time to think.
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While the F.B.I. targets a higher evil, Kirkman slogs through the gray area between absolutes: respecting precedent vs.
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It's tempting to paint this picture in absolutes, but it won't lead us any closer to a resolution.
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What the death of God made clear, or should have made clear, is that there are no absolutes.
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" Absolutes "refer to an enduring and fixed reference point that can anchor and guide us through our temporary lives.
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The insight here is simple: When it comes to money, stop looking at relative values and start looking at absolutes.
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The pardon power is one of the few absolutes the president has and there&aposs no real checked on it.
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The major theme that I would argue that's been one of the true absolutes in history is that power corrupts.
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Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates Through March 22 at the Shed, 545 West 30th Street, Manhattan; 646-455-3494, theshed.org.
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We cling to this idea of who we are based on an image of self defined by these perceived absolutes.
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It's an attractive line of thinking for those who find comfort in absolutes, the black and white of right and wrong.
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There are no absolutes except that you'll probably want to eat something if you're going to run for a long time.
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So, I'm left with two absolutes: I'm definitely not buying any of those mattresses, and I'm for sure going to die alone.
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Even those aren't absolutes, as some libraries offer cafes and some people use both as places to caffeinate and get work done.
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"Since I'm learning not to deal in absolutes, even though we're divorced the possibility exists that we might be back together," she says.
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We live in a political media world that is predicated in absolutes: One side is absolutely right, one side is absolutely wrong. Nuance?
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We'll be lucky this art season if we get another exhibition as tautly beautiful as "Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates" at the Shed.
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If gravity, ladies and gentlemen, is a theory, then how can we expect that we can divine any absolutes in our own circumstances.
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And what the media wants is absolutes, and the media also loves to see feminists and feminists of different generations attacking one another.
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But she doesn't view life in absolutes or waste her time wondering how things might have turned out if she'd made another choice.
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He was particularly wary of "moral relativism," his catchall term for a philosophy he defined as one in which there were no moral absolutes.
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Food imposed absolutes: the things you must do (use a sharp knife) and things you must not do (eat unopened mussels, use a garlic press).
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I don't believe the world operates in absolutes, in black and white and short and tall — I like living in the gray, in the medium.
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There are no absolutes in what to eat except that you'll probably want to eat something if you're going to run for a long time.
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"There were several absolutes in the field when I started," Dr. Jovanovic (pronounced jo-VAN-oh-vitch) told the medical journal The Lancet in 21996.
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This pattern is encapsulated by the Weber-Fechner law, which says that animals — including people — commonly perceive physical stimuli in relative increments rather than absolutes.
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Speaking with an African accent that underscores his mythic presence as a war hero, Othello exudes the titanic certainty of someone who thinks in absolutes.
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"As a scientist, I'm trained to not think in absolutes, so I can't say with 100% confidence that it *wasn't* aliens," Knight noted in an email.
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Young said both pollsters and journalist described the results of the national polls and predictions with a false precision by presenting the result as near absolutes.
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"Training is like teaching our kids to drive, with rules, absolutes and best practices," Glen De Vos, chief technology officer at Aptiv, said in a telephone interview.
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And the more the series can live in this gray area between absolutes — a detective story staple — the more it can distinguish itself from television's crowded pack.
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There is no limiting principle on this line of attack and that's exactly the left's strategy: it's entirely open-ended with no absolutes save to destroy whatever offends.
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"Enemy of the people" is overplaying the hand by a factor of 10, but that's always who Trump has been in terms of hyperbole and absolutes dominating his rhetoric.
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In the same way, the wall may be becoming a "clash of absolutes" that crystallizes the key 21920st-century cultural divide over the nation's growing ethnic and racial diversity.
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So, if evangelicals' concerns are in fact based on moral absolutes, they should be at least as distraught with Trump as they were with Clinton, if not more so.
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The chromatic contrast between the inkiness of their cassocks and the room's ascetic whiteness finds an echo in Rodrigues's rigid dualism, a belief in absolutes that will be tested.
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So, softening that binary as much as possible makes sense to me — I see it as more of continuum, or a tangle, with no absolutes and lots of messy intersections.
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As politicians have discovered, there are tradeoffs involved in allowing the loudest and most belligerent voices -- those prone to speaking in Sith-like absolutes -- to define the terms of debate.
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In a world of very few absolutes, here is one: Nature has no more perfect offering than fruit, nothing that seems better engineered to delight and entice humankind's every sense.
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However, the assumption that "less opioids is always better, for everyone," is just as flawed as assuming that an opioid is right for everyone; absolutes in either direction confer risk.
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That in public speeches women take it somewhat more personal than men — although we are talking just tendencies here, not absolutes — is indeed news, and lends itself to assorted interpretations.
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I call this group contextualists, because they dispense with absolutes, and recognize that a complex tangle of variables are at play in compulsive drug use, and are by no means permanent.
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I've never been a fan of absolutes, but 365 days of sobriety seemed doable—far enough away that I might learn something, but not too long that it felt like forever.
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Here are the biggest warning signs that reveal a dishonest person: Absolutes are meant to support a point of view, but they're rarely true and can easily incite denial and opposition.
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Mr. Trump and evangelicals share a disdain for political correctness, a world seen through absolutes and a desire to see an America that embraces Judeo-Christian values again rather than rejecting them.
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Having a figure from a tradition whose moral absolutes are, well, absolute, provides lawmakers with a necessary, daily reminder of the human faces of those affected by even the most well-meaning policies.
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Still, Green has experienced enough baseball to see absolutes, and the top of the eighth inning his club endured in a 9-3 loss to Chicago White Sox on Sunday afternoon certainly qualified.
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They'll have the luxury of talking about success and failure as absolutes as if they are two fixed points on a complete circle that we are guaranteed to reach with a little willpower.
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"I may not have known it then, but daring to ask questions and redefine right and wrong when everybody around you spoke in absolutes was my first attempt at a courageous life," she continued.
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There are absolutes hidden in the gray area between dance and soul music, the song suggests—the same hand that yanks you onto the dance floor can clutch your palm on the walk home.
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The Shed's soft-spoken retrospective, Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, makes plain that the artist's oeuvre, spanning a half century, is so forward-looking parts of it remain ahead of their time even today.
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Anxiety tells me that I am never going to produce anything again (it speaks in absolutes and worst-case scenarios, its native language), especially when depression has me wanting to do nothing but sleep.
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" Later, when the turned-to-darkness Anakin Skywalker confronts Obi-Wan Kenobi he warns, "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy," to which his former master replies, "Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
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That was the big challenge of writing our How to Feed a Runner Guide, which is why it's more about setting up guidelines to help you figure out what works for you than dictating absolutes.
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There is no one-size-fits-all answer, though we can probably build consensus on a few absolutes: Banishing a person's work from exhibitions goes too far; letting living abusers go unpunished doesn't go far enough.
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We live in an age of absolutes, where health insurance is fallaciously equated with healthcare, where progressives disdain the private sector and put all trust in the federal bureaucracy while conservatives instinctively distrust the federal Leviathan.
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In a telephone interview, Ms. Leventhal, the Kepler's first violinist, compared this attention shift to a "Zen-like" focus on the present: "You are not dealing with absolutes like 'an A is an A,'" she said.
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As a schoolgirl at the exceptionally holy St Swithun's, in Winchester, she had desperately wanted to be good in thought, word and deed; at university she threw out moral absolutes, becoming an "atheist Anglican", as she remained.
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Epic fantasy literature often feels as though it's the byproduct of works like The Lord of the Rings, which plays with its characters in terms of absolutes: a small party bravely venturing forward in the face of absolute evil.
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The problem is that in this "clash of absolutes," the wall has acquired such symbolic power for each side that it would require enormous dexterity to craft a solution that allows both sides to insist they have held firm.
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" Stan's team added, "Countless people can attest to how Stan inspired them to read, taught them that the world is not made up of absolutes, that heroes can have flaws and even villains can show humanity within their souls.
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It's true that identity politics is often illiberal, both in its emphasis on group experience over individualism and, in the web of moral absolutes — taboo words, sacred speakers, forbidden arguments — that it seeks to weave around left-liberal discourse.
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As for violence perpetrated by Palestinians, especially within Hamas but also, to some degree, among Palestinians living in the West Bank, in a world of hardened absolutes, King might, as others did, have come to doubt the virtues of nonviolent resistance.
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"Female assassins, like female cop and action heroes, are more likely to be young, in their teens, twenties, mostly," he tells Broadly over email, trying to avoid absolutes, but adding that most films start with the woman being in a very vulnerable state.
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As Western governments became more expressive of the will of the governed, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church has been seen, by contrast, as a figure vested in bulletproof pre-modern absolutes, immune to electoral or popular pressures, accountable to God alone.
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"There are a few absolutes in medicine and surgery, and one of the most significant is when you get a pool of blood in a pocket of the body, you go right to the operating room and you remove it," Dubrow said in the clip.
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Last year, Lee played the most efficient and effective basketball of his career as a frontcourt rotation player with the Mavericks; that's per-minute, not absolutely, but the rest of Lee's career will be judged per minute, as the absolutes are already by the board.
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Our Back Pages This week's issue highlights new books about influential figures in American history, including a biography of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. In 1989, Schlesinger, using an iconic scene in "Huckleberry Finn," argued that America was a nation of relativism rather than absolutes.
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This is amounts to a 16.9% decrease in the odds of acquiring the disease—but in absolutes, that's the difference between an 0.14 percent chance of acquiring the disease for those who hadn't gotten their appendix removed versus an 0.11 percent chance for those who had.
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There are a lot of people who have the mindset that they can only be a jock or a musician or a mathematician, but when you think about it, math and music are the only true absolutes that use both the right and left side of the brain.
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" In particular, Walch is concerned about the phrases "immutable" and "uncensored truth," which ascribe absolutes to a technology that may be better described as "hard to change" and "uncensored as long as the people maintaining the network, who may include miners, developers, or dictators, want it to be.
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However, for decades, many on the left, including many in the mainstream media, have intoned that there are no absolutes, that everything is relative; everyone has his or her own truth, his or her own reality and far be it from anyone to judge another's truth or reality.
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Being reliably aggressive and, often enough, ferociously malicious does not prevent him from expressing warm enthusiasm for a surprising variety of artworks: About Donald Judd, for example he writes: "Perfection, even when it is the perfection of nothing, appeals to the desire for absolutes, finalities, ideal standards" (324).
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Even if a machine could determine an appropriate plan — and as we know there are few absolutes in medicine — we still want to work with a doctor, who has been trained to talk us through the options and administer the treatment protocol — and who understands that art in the science.
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In film, the "strong female character" trope has been countered by the recent trend of science fiction franchises helmed by deeply flawed, demonstrably complex heroines: The Hunger Games' Katniss, Sandra Bullock in Gravity, and Amy Adams in Arrival are a few recent example of female characters who have been critically received as having evolved past gender absolutes and stereotypes.
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During the 593s and 259s, political scientists and legal scholars described the battle over abortion rights as "a clash of absolutes" that crystallized the emerging cultural divide between the groups in society that welcomed more permissive attitudes toward sex and more fluid family arrangements and traditionalists led by the emerging religious right movement that mobilized in opposition to them.
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And I don't think of those who are departed as people who lost, and when we frame these grand and nuanced battles as absolutes — with the "strong" people surviving and sometimes suffering and the "weak" people falling into the arms of absence — it does an injustice to the true machinery of the brain, of the body, of the heart, of anything responsible for keeping us here on the days we don't want to be.
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