What was to be absolute

I want to say something inside of us rebels against an absolute statement, but I don't speak for us.  Just for me.  So I will say, something inside of me rebels against absolute statements.
"There can be no freedom without education."
"There can be no triumph without loss"
"There can be no light without darkness"
"There can be no peace without war"
"There can be no peace without justice"
"There can be no courage without fear"
"There can be no progress without struggle"
"There can be no etc. without etc..."

These statements are usually followed by the speaker or writer proceeding to make some point, but I can rarely pay attention to what that point is because I have been distracted by my mind which is freaking out because it is simultaneously trying to decide if we are being manipulated and positing scenarios where the statement may not hold up. 

They sound good, they make sense, but I am uncomfortable with absolute statements.  The universe seems so big to me, and time so infinite.  Humans and other life so varied and our experiences so distinct, it just seems impossible for you to have found the two things with a relationship that never vary across all possible parameters.  And you see that in most of those examples I gave, when you say those things you are really just working on defining the first word based on the second. 

So I like qualifying statements before my bold assertions.  They make me feel more comfortable.  They narrow the field in which I have to test the assertion from all space and all time to some more manageable scope. 

I panic when asked, "What is your favorite color?" How can you possibly answer that question without more information?  My favorite color of shirts is different than my favorite color of jeans.  even more narrowly, my favorite color of cotton button-up shirts is different than my favorite color of polo shirts.  And there are also conditional dependencies: my favorite color of cotton button-up shirts is different depending on whether I am wearing black slacks or blue jeans.

'How many brothers and sisters do you have?'

'Well, you will have to be a lot more specific about what you mean by brothers and sisters as there are somewhere over 6 billion people on this earth and I subscribe to the notion that we can see ourselves as a single family, and I also see that family as including our progenitors as well as future generations.  Nor do I limit the possibility that the basis of our shared intelligence is limited to this pinpoint of the universe or even to this single universe and that I may share an organizer of my current physical makeup with those intelligences in their current form.  So in the broadest sense, given my current grasp of calculations, I would have to say that I have an infinite number of brothers and sisters. 

...

I also have a dog" 

She hasn't returned my last text.