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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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• Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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• The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is. And the sorrow comes primarily from selfishness, which is the absence of love. The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Love Is, Joy, Sorrow

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• Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Insecurity, Security

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World”, p.12, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vulgarity Is, Inability, Pieces

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman (2005). “Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings”, p.190, Cambridge University Press

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• Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fighting, Light, Darkness

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Self, Perfect

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• Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Competition, Oppression, Economic Competition

  "Economic Harmonies". Book by Frédéric Bastiat, 1850.

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• In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Issues, Wake Up

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• OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ostriches, Wings, Bird

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.176, University of Georgia Press

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• If there were even one spark of evidence from antiquity that Jesus even may have gotten married, then as a historian, I would have to weigh this evidence against the total absence of such information in either Scripture or the early church traditions. But there is no such spark-not a scintilla of evidence-anywhere in historical sources. Even where one might expect to find such claims in the bizarre, second-century, apocryphal gospels...there is no reference that Jesus ever got married.

  Paul L. Maier

  Jesus, Historical, Church

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• The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.

  Albert Mohler

  Spiritual, Biblical, Thinking

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• For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.

  Chungliang Al Huang

  Mind, Bombs, Matter

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• Peace isn't the mere absence of violence; peace must come from inner peace. And inner peace comes from taking others’ interests into account.

  Dalai Lama

  Inner Peace, Violence, Interest

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• The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Doubt, Faces, Faithfulness

  Twitter post from Mar 24, 2014

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• Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

  PZ Myers

  Tangible, Excuse, Importance

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• Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice For All, People, Conflict

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• Consensus is the absence of leadership.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Consensus

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• Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul. In ancient times, purposeful solitude was both palliative and preventative. It was used to heal fatigue and to prevent weariness. It was also used as an oracle, as a way of listening to the inner self to solicit advice and guidance otherwise impossible to hear in the din of daily life.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Believe, Self, Advice

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• Peace is not just the mere absence of violence or disturbance. It's when there is a possibility of conflict, but you deliberately avoid violence and adopt methods to solve the problem through peaceful means. That is real peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Mean, Peaceful

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• The theme of the collection this time is MONSTER. It's not about the typical Monster you find in sci-fi and video games. The expression of the Monsters I have made has a much deeper meaning. The craziness of humanity, the fear we all have, the feeling of going beyond common sense, the absence of ordinariness, expressed by something extremely big, by something that could be ugly or beautiful. In other words, I wanted to question the established standards of beauty.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Beautiful, Expression, Games

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• The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.

  Rita Zahara

  Doe

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• You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Angel, Damnation

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• The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

  Jonathan Ive

  Simple, Design, Clutter

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