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• And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other… — Jean de Joinville
• There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means. — Henri Frederic Amiel
• Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do… — Steven Pinker
• In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt… — Shekhar Kapur
• The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its… — Anthony Kennedy
• Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can… — Emil Ruder
• Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to… — Cindy Chupack
• Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a… — Camille Paglia
• We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we… — Sarah Bernhardt
• In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid… — Jean Baudrillard
• The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. - — Janette Turner Hospital

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