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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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• What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs.

  Jacques Chirac

  Country, Thinking, Past

  "Interview with French President Jacques Chirac". L'Orient-Le Jour Interview, www.globalpolicy.org. October 16, 2002.

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• I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Nba, Trials

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• Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling and fighting. True peace is not affected by the roaring of the world, outer or inner. This sea of peace is at our command if we practise the spiritual life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Heart, Fighting

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• For the last month I have been a strict vegetarian. The moral effects of this regime are immense, owing to the voluntary subjugation of the flesh and the resulting absence of desires. You will appreciate how full I am of this idea when I tell you that I expect it to work the regeneration of mankind. I advise you to change over to a natural way of life, with proper nourishment (wholemeal bread), and you will soon feel the benefit.

  Gustav Mahler

  Ideas, Appreciate, Desire

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• A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In such cases we have a sense in which the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be performer and observer of the same show. Presumably he introcepts or incorporates the standards he attempts to maintain in the presence of others so that even in their absence his conscience requires him to act in a socially proper way.

  Erving Goffman

  Taken, Reality, May

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• Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Clear, Prose

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• Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.

  John Owen

  Eye, Compassion, Soul

  John Owen (2001). “Communion with God”, p.32, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowing, People, Action

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• It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Children, Grieving, Sin

  Arthur W Pink (2013). “Practical Christianity”, p.46, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Real, Light, Black

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• Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Hurt, Love Is, Funny Things

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• Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

  Janet Yellen

  Capitalist Economy, Routine, Employment

  "Why Janet Yellen Should Be Fed Chair (In 4 Quotes)" By Mark Gongloff, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.

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• Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.

  Havelock Ellis

  Religious, Jesus, Careers

  Impressions and Comments 5 January (1922)

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• I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .

  Ntozake Shange

  Teenager, Writing, Thinking

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