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• The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!

  Herman Melville

  Lonely, Stars, Memories

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.138, Velvet Element Books

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• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

  Hippocrates

  Laughter, Pain, Mistake

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

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• I'm not surprised people are being slaughtered, people are being martyred. Our hope isn't in this world as believers, it's in the eternity. To be absent of body is to be present with the Lord, so they are dying for something that is real and will last forever.

  Russell Okung

  Real, People, Forever

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• Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

  Sigmund Freud

  Writing, Voice, Persons

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

  Anne Bancroft

  Poetry, Should, Haiku

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• We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

  Eugenia Price

  Believe, Learning, Practice

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• When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.

  Herophilos

  Art, Health, Bad Ass

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• When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.

  R. T. Kendall

  Spirit, Sin, Excuse

  R. T. Kendall, Joy Strang (2005). “By Love Transformed”, p.143, Charisma Media

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• Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger

  Colin Powell

  Lying, Law, Poverty

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• I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Art, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1365, Delphi Classics

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• I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Believe, Brooding, Agnosticism

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• Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Family, Children

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• This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Somewhere Else, Moments

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• ...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Justice, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• CREATIVITY is when you are not, because creativity is the fragrance of the creator. It is the presence of God in you. Creativity belongs to the creator, not to you. No man can ever be creative. Yes, man can compose, construct, but can never be a creator. When man disappears, when man becomes utterly absent, a new kind of presence enters his being - the presence of God. Then there is creativity. When God is inside you His light that starts falling around you is creativity. The climate that arises around you because of the presence of God within you is creativity.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Creativity, Men

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• I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.

  George Burns

  Funny, Witty, Complaining

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• When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Spiritual, Ideas, Church

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• Quality of life is the sum total of the fairness of our tax structure; the caliber of our homes; the cleanliness of our air and water; and the provision of affirmative assistance to those who cannot assist themselves. True quality is absent if we allow social suffering to abide in an otherwise pristine environment.

  Tom McCall

  Home, Oregon, Air

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• I don't think the possibility for beauty can be foreclosed, because beauty can take so many forms. There is beauty that arises from the unexpected, when our familiar perspectives are thrown off balance. There is also the beauty that paradoxically comes out of the tragic, that emerges because we are reminded of what is no longer there, that becomes powerful because of what is absent.

  Sze Tsung Leong

  Powerful, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Space, Long

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• Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Giving, Imagination

  Joseph Conrad “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad”, Library of Alexandria

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• The absent are easily refuted.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.131, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Thinking, Differences

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• The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.

  Austin Bradford Hill

  Determination, Lying, Science

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• 'THIS ROOM HAS MYSTERY LIKE A TRANCE' This room has mystery like a trance Of wine ; forget-me-nots of you Are chair and couch, the books your Fingers touched. And now that you Are absent here the silence scrapes A secret rust from everything; While sudden wreaths of sorrow's Dust uncover emptiness like halls To stumble through, and terror falls

  Kenneth Patchen

  Book, Fall, Wine

  Kenneth Patchen (1968). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, p.112, New Directions Publishing

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