Absence Quotes - Page 36

• In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Order, Enjoy, Feels

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.

  Ben Bernanke

  Risk, Demand, Path

  Ben Bernanke's Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, www.federalreserve.gov. February 15, 2006.

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• Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Faith, Soul, Achieve

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose (1993). “The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice”, p.111, Lotus Press

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• Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.

  Marguerite Duras

  Years, Cities, Paris

  Marguerite Duras (1997). “Outside”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

  Arthur Miller

  Communication, Responsibility, Expression

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• A negative and toxic person never feels teased with the genuine presence of the pretenders in his network and he always feels pleased with the absence of the genuine leader in his circle.

  Anuj

  Circles, Leader, Toxic

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• If wine were to disappear from human production, I believe it would cause an absence, a failure in health and intellect, a void much more terrifying than all the recesses and the deviations for which wine is regarded as responsible.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Wine, Void

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• The problem with death is absence

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Problem

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• We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.

  Alistair Begg

  Adversity, Should, God's Will

  Alistair Begg (2009). “The Hand of God: Finding His Care in All Circumstances”, p.44, Moody Publishers

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• Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed to pay off. Some become friends and say friends for life. Some change in our absence - or perhaps it is we who change in theirs - and we meet up again only to find that we don’t get along any more.

  Mark Haddon

  Distance, Book, Hard Work

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• Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.

  Laura Ramirez

  Pain, Love You, Deeply In Love

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• Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Government, Humanity

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• Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

  Deborah Tannen

  Mean, Cooperation, Conflict

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• Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Bugs, Programming, Shows

  "Software Engineering Techniques". Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee in Rome, Italy, edited by J.N. Buxton and B. Randell, October 27-31, 1969.

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• The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

  Herodotus

  Envy, Secret, Secret To Success

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• It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

  Mark Epstein

  Kind, Difficult

  Mark Epstein (2013). “Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.46, Basic Books

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• I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing breath. This is the strange thing about presence and absence. When we breath in, our bodies are filled with nutrients and nourishment. Our blood is filled with oxygen, our skin gets flush; our bones get harder-they get compacted. Our muscles get toned and we feel very present when we're breathing in. The problem is, that when we're breathing in, we can't speak. So presence and silence have something to do with each other.

  Li-Young Lee

  Thinking, Oxygen, Blood

  "The Totality of Causes". Interview with Tina Chang, www.poets.org. February 21, 2014.

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• Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Hands, Mind

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• In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Instinct, Certainty

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• Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.

  Thomas Sankara

  Opportunity, Rights, People

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a
  destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere
  arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

  Kenneth Turan

  Regret, Silence, Sound

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• Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.

  Stuart Wilde

  Bravery, Ability, Terrified

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• Many Christians are either woefully deficient in their knowledge of Scripture or noticeably devoid of any experience of God's power. The Lord never intended this for His people. We have all seen firsthand the joyless intellectual arrogance the absence of spiritual power can produce, as well as the fanatical emotional excess that comes from the lack of theological integrity.

  Sam Storms

  Christian, Spiritual, Integrity

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• The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Political, Vices

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Owing, Want, Firsts

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1063, Manonmani Publishers

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