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• Friends, though absent, are still present.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Absent Friends, Stills

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.181

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• It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

  Virgil Goode

  Meaningful, Hype, Voting

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• When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!

  C. Everett Koop

  Prayer, Miracle, Heaven

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• But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of one of more elements of the process - the accumulated stock in a money form, the labor-power to be utilized by the producer, the network of distributors, the consumers who were purchasers. One or more elements were missing because, in previous historical social systems, one or more of these elements was not commodified or was insufficiently commodified.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Availability, Missing, Historical

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• Peace is not simply the absence of warfare.

  Pope Paul VI

  Warfare, Catholicism

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• Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.

  Stephen Levine

  Grief, Loss, Rope

  Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.9, Rodale

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• Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

  Donald Hall

  Grief, Loss, House

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• When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

  Ronald Reagan

  Determination, Freedom, War

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Lying, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Penguin

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• Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It is the inclusion of all color. White is every other color that exists, combined. So, too, is love not the absence of an emotion (hatred, anger, lust, jealousy, covetousness), but the summation of all feeling. It is the sum total. The aggregate amount. The everything.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love Is, Thinking, White

  "Conversations With God: Book One". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, January 22, 2009.

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• The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Stupid, Army

  War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 11 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

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• Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Marriage, Parent

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1984). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”

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• In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Life, Family

  "Nelson Mandela's personal letters reveal guilt, anguish and marital spats". www.news.com.au. December 6, 2013.

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• It is an understatement to say that the time has arrived for a serious and open international dialogue regarding the possibility of future interplanetary relations. In no other area of human experience has so much evidence existed for so long, and yet been attended by such a paucity of serious research and analysis - at least in the civilian domain. While the subject matter of UFOs itself is extraordinary, it is the absence of a serious human response to it that is most extraordinary.

  Steven M. Greer

  Long, Analysis, Research

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• That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Pain, Sadness, Space

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

  Daniel Goleman

  Cousin, Knowing, Optimism

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.128, Bantam

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• The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

  Minna Antrim

  Jealousy, Names, Green

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• Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.

  Albert Einstein

  Dark, Simple, Reality

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• Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.

  Albert Einstein

  Heart, Men, Light

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• The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Silence, Sound

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  There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

  Emma Watson

  Strong Women, Overcoming, Have Faith

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• I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an old farty, snob, but it bothers me.

  Tim Gunn

  Sorry, Thinking, Taste

  "Tim Gunn On Celeb Fashion: "The Kardashians Have An Absence Of Taste"". Interview with Mary S. Park, www.wonderwall.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

  John Cusack

  Serendipity

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• No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

  Gary Cooper

  Regret, Mistake, Mind

  "Fictional character: Professor Bertram Potts". "Ball of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1941.

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• I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Father, Hero, Home

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