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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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• If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

  Alfie Kohn

  Unconditional Love, Enthusiasm, Helping

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• To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends.

  Phil Callaway

  Iphone, Moments

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• To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Passion, Love Is, Inability

  Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.285, Princeton University Press

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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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• 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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• Not an angel of the air,
  Bird melodious or bird fair,
  Be absent hence!

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Air, Bird

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, p.3, Courier Dover Publications

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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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• ... the world of nature is by no means absent from the eschatological program set out in the NT. While rarely rising to the level of an explicit emphasis, and never the chief concern in and of itself, the world of nature is an integral component of God's new creation work.

  Douglas J. Moo

  Mean, Rising, World

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• It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.

  Camilla Gibb

  Life, Blessing, Who I Am

  Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.248, Penguin

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• Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

  Warren Buffett

  Air, Breathe

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• I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp anything of God's heart for this broken planet if I never weep because its brokenness touches me and breaks my heart? How can I reflect his image if I never share in his sufferings? And how will any of us ever learn to treasure his hesed and grace if we never experience phases where these blessings seem absent?

  Carolyn Custis James

  Jesus, Grief, Heart

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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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• Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in the experience of many people for whom this existential space is important.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Space, People, Important

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• In Hollywood, the ... basic freedom of being able to choose between alternatives is absent. The gifted people who have the capacity for choice cannot exercise it; the executives who technically have the freedom of choice do not actually have it, because they usually lack the knowledge and imagination necessary for making such a choice.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  Exercise, People, Imagination

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• When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter--they are all hell on earth. Jesus' desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What's disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about Hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Jesus, Loneliness

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• By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every individual and every society to its full dignity, in which problems are absent and perfect health, happiness, and a rapid pace of progress are the natural features of life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Simple, Perfect, Meditation

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• ... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with Him in His glory. If that is true of us we shall be believers in word only, not in deed. When deeds are absent, our faith is dead.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Suffering, Deeds

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• Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

  George Washington

  Truth, Honesty, Men

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• Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.

  Joyce Cary

  Morning, Men, People

  joyce cary (1944). “the hore's mouth”

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• At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

  Paul Kantner

  Honesty, Firsts, Iridescent

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• I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to pers­ue all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends. I say this to those who are present, it is meant also for those who are absent. Moreover, Christ commands it.

  Pope Urban II

  Christian, Feet, Knights

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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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