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benefits will accrue to the firm that sells to the customer first. - Absolute cost advantages can be gained by early commitment to supplies of raw materials...

holds that the human condition is absolute; yet when it speaks of continuity it implies that society is not absolute but pragmatic and even anomalous....

foods he eats; from the sweat-shop clothes he wears; from his educational advantages, his special privileges, his social opportunities. ... Civilization denies...

when they are not spoiled by civilization, or theories that uphold the absolute preferableness, in the arts of government, of gentle and persuasive means...

convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common. ...II. Absolute space, in its own nature, without...

becoming absolute. Let it be your glory, my Lord, and that of the new generation springing up with you, that this government do not become absolute at any...

universal language, one occurring in every domain, and occurring as that absolute No which is the origin of every repression and every darkness, and a darkness...

Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone. Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Word Book (1906); republished...

more. Its vast extent and its variety of climate and productions are of advantage in this age for one people, whatever they might have been in former ages...

but monarchy is absolute. Part II, Chapter 8, Exchanges And Imbalances, p. 102 I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage. Part II, Chapter...

dictatorships, one-party dictatorships, personalist dictatorships, or absolute monarchies. A dictatorship is a form of government characterized by a single...

accord with the collective will of society, and will not seek personal advantage in the social process, is romantic in its interpretation of the possibilities...

Science of Good and Evil. Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance. Once you believe that you have the absolute and final answers to moral...

are to it the measure of the efficient and the real. It has this great advantage over the Age of Science, that it knows all things without having learned...

it is true that in the final stages of totalitarianism an absolute evil appears (absolute because it can no longer be deduced from humanly comprehensible...

blood." Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. Section...

It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and...

you make an absolute commitment of all your power to your survival. For a shaman, the proper way to approach every task it with absolute commitment. The...

seems no point in publishing something, even if it's intended for their advantage, that they will receive only with contempt and ingratitude. Better simply...

to have in itself—without reference to some kind of subjective gain or advantage, is utterly alien to subjective reason, even where it rises above the...