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• The doctrine of population has been conspicuously absent, not because I doubt in the least its truth and vast importance, but because it forms no part of the direct problem of economics.

  Thomas Malthus

  Doubt, Population, Doctrine

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• I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.

  Sarah Palin

  Sports, Team, Opportunity

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• In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss... There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand.

  R. O. Blechman

  Art, Loss, Hands

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• The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.

  Martin Heidegger

  Believe, Home, Opening Up

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• I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

  Sigrid Undset

  Education, School, Class

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way. Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes, Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.

  Nathalia Crane

  Running, Eye, Circles

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

  Nathalia Crane

  Tails, Lines, Bees

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• Highly technical philosophical arguments of the sort many philosophers favor are absent here. That is because I have a prior problem to deal with. I have learned that arguments, no matter how watertight, often fall on deaf ears. I am myself the author of arguments that I consider rigorous and unanswerable but that are often not such much rebutted or even dismissed as simply ignored.

  Daniel Dennett

  Fall, Philosophical, Atheism

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sports, Athlete, Men

  "The String Theory" by David Foster Wallace, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2008.

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• He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

  Horace

  Men, Speak, Failing

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• Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

  William Hazlitt

  Destiny, Birth Place, Ties

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.84

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• Spiritual power is generated within temple walls, and sent out to bless the world ... Every home penetrated by the temple spirit enlightens, cheers, and comforts every member of the household. The peace we covet is found in such homes. Indeed, when temples are on earth, the whole world shares measurably in the issuing light; when absent, the hearts of men become heavy, as if they said, with the people of Enoch's day, 'Zion is fled'" (See Moses 7:69).

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Spiritual, Wall, Cheer

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• If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

  William Hazlitt

  Friends, Long, Forget

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.493

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• No god is absent where prudence dwells.

  Juvenal

  Prudence

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• Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

  Billy Graham

  Perfection, Heaven, Earth

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• I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

  Matt Dillon

  Creeps, Absent Minded

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• It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared

  Cassandra Clare

  Missing, Gone, Notable

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• Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Military

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• Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Emotional, Worry

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• St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Prayer, Growing Up

  Thomas Keating (2014). “Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit”, p.5, Lantern Books

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• The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grace, Doctrine, Discourse

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.73, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Touching, Human Nature

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2017

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• When you seek a connection to God, you suffer. God is not absent.

  Mark Whitwell

  Suffering, Connections

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• Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended meaning of the entire sentence. For instance, if the word love is intentionally or accidentally replaced with hate in a sentence, its effect could trigger a war or false dogma.

  Suzy Kassem

  Hate, War, Love Is

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• Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Meaningful, Heart, Greatness

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