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• What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
  Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours
  More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
  O weary reckoning!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Night, Eight

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 4, l. 172

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• The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Sports, Believe, Games

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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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• I love what I'm doing here but I hate being away from home. I hate it. I look forward to one day raising a family myself, and I really look forward to children but when that day comes, I don't want to be an absent dad. I'm already an absent husband.

  Chuck Ragan

  Dad, Children, Husband

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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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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• 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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• By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Life, Time, Lasts

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• An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Giving, Friendly

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• Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Elements, Chance

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• Part of the reason that America is born in the world is to demonstrate an openness and a goodness and a compassion that is all too absent. It's part of the reason that I feel every day so blessed that I and so many Jews have found this wonderful haven, and I hope that we can spread that message and that people who come here will find it as inspiring as I think all of us do.

  David Wolpe

  Blessed, Thinking, Compassion

  "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God...He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking, uninvolved. Count on it, God intrudes in glorious and myriad ways.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Thinking, Way, Daydreaming

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• Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

  Warren Buffett

  Home, Oxygen, Mind

  "Warren Buffett busts a cash myth". Warren Buffett's 2014 annual letter to the shareholders of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, www.valueresearchonline.com. March 4, 2015.

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• Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sick, Succeed, Groups

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• The Judo pupil, therefore, must cultivate his mind; he must never feel fear, never lose his temper, never be off his guard; but he must be cool and calm, though not absent-minded; he must act as quick as thought, according to circumstances. He must also be dexterous as well as bold both in attack and in defense.

  Yokoyama Sakujiro

  Mind, Defense, Calm

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• The main reasons for dwelling .. on Hayek's model is simply that it has certain properties, absent from most others, that conform exceptionally well to recent neurobiological evidence on memory and that make it particularly suited to the current discourse.

  Joaquin Fuster

  Memories, Dwelling, Reason

  "Memory in the Cerebral Cortex: An Empirical Approach to Neural Networks in the Human and Nonhuman Primate". Book by Joaquin M. Fuster, 1995.

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• Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

  Michael Crichton

  Book, Writing, Location

  "King of the techno-thriller" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2006.

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• I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.

  Joyce Giraud

  Phones, Matter, Tvs

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• One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read/write/look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied/ostracized throughout school) as formed my/my thoughts/my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me/my writing.

  Marie Calloway

  Home, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

  Voltaire

  Mean, Letters, Mail

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• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  Kate Atkinson

  Book, Men, Creepy

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• My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's fine with me. I have no bitterness about it. When I was 3, she went to America for months. I never had any problems with that. I even liked it.

  Sophie Calle

  Mother, Fun, Drinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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