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• What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the thought of taking vows never arises. This is only an indication of the absence of love. People do not marry out of love; they marry out of fear. If there is love on this earth, marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do. We make rules for that which we are not sure of.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, Two

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• Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
  Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
  That neither by hir wordes ne hir face
  Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence,
  Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Patience, Space, Faces

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1874). “The Prioresses Tale: Sire Thopas, the Monkes Tale, the Clerkes Tale, the Squieres Tale, from the Canterbury Tales”, p.90

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• The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

  Charles de Foucauld

  Peace, Risk, Mediocrity

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• There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.

  Toni Morrison

  Peace, War, Reading

  Toni Morrison (2007). “The Dancing Mind”, p.6, Vintage

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• Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor is it brought about by dictatorship. Instead, it is rightly and appropriately called "an enterprise of justice" (Is. 32:7). Peace results from that order structured into human society by its divine founder, and actualized by men as they thirst after ever greater justice.

  Pope Paul VI

  Peace, War, Men

  "Gaudium et Spes". § 78, December 7, 1965.

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• To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men, and therefore the common good of humanity. Peace cannot be limited to a mere absence of war, the result of an ever precarious balance of forces. No, peace is something that is built up day after day, in the pursuit of an order intended by God, which implies a more perfect form of justice among men.

  Pope Paul VI

  Spiritual, Peace, War

  Catholic Church. Pope (1963-1978 : Paul VI), Pope Paul VI (1980*). “On the development of peoples”

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• I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

  Jane Addams

  Peace, War, Believe

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• Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Peace, Mean, Humanity

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.53, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• The mere absence of war is not peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Military

  Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. January 14, 1963.

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• Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

  Richard Lamm

  Peace, War, Heart

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• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Sobriety, Passive Aggressive

  Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”

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• Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

  George Fetherling

  Relationship, Wall, Distance

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• A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

  Petra Kelly

  Peace, Mean, Rights

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• In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Truth, Games, Towns

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• Your absence has gone through me

  W. S. Merwin

  Missing You, Gone, Missing

  William Stanley Merwin, “Separation”

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• Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Beauty, Kindness, Good Nature

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.402

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• It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.

  Michael Josephson

  Courage, Moral, Should

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• ...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets on with the work itself and actually does know, it is difficult to see why, conversely, a mistrust should not be placed in this mistrust, and why we should not be concerned that this fear of erring is itself the very error.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fear, Fall, Errors

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• But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Beauty, Eye, Virginia

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1541, Library of America

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• The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

  John Ralston Saul

  Vision, Our Society, Way

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

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• I am an advocate for awareness, the truth, and a person's right to know. I believe that in the absence of the truth, all of us stand helpless to defend ourselves, our families and our health, which is the greatest gift we have.

  Erin Brockovich

  Truth, Believe, Health

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• The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit. In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.

  Alan Greenspan

  Mean, Rights, Understanding

  "Alan Greenspan wants the US to go back on the gold standard" by Bill Bonner, www.businessinsider.com. July 10, 2016.

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• There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower them to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Educational, Believe, School

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• Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

  Zhuangzi

  Happiness, Happy, Perfect

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• Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

  Petra Kelly

  Positivity, Mass Destruction, People

  Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace

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