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• A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.

  Steve Aylett

  Divorce, Ends, Hundred

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• Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

  Alain de Botton

  Loss, Frustration, Intellectual

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• Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

  John Berger

  Travel, People, Horizon

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.12, Vintage

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• Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be a combination of policies that would lead to a certain group dying out.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Mean, Dying, Groups

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• The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Fall, Mean, Library

  Gretel Ehrlich (2010). “The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold”, p.53, Vintage

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• The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Faith, Thinking, Government

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• Greyhound racing is a self-regulating gambling business that depends on the uncontrolled breeding and unaccountable disappearance of thousands of dogs every year. That is a situation that is unacceptable and indefensible

  Annette Crosbie

  Dog, Gambling, Self

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• The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce is by the nature of things a relativist; his mind is constantly on the fluctuating values of the marketplace, and there is no surer way to fail than to dogmatize and moralize about things.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Growth, Mind

  "Ideas Have Consequences". Book by Richard Weaver, p. 32, 1948.

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• This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

  Peter Garrett

  Loss, Space, Generations

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• Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race.

  John Murray

  Race, Order, Solitude

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• Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

  Adyashanti

  Soul, Soul Searching

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• There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.

  Adi Da

  Heart, Moments, Appearance

  Adi Da Samraj (2005). “Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcending of Death and Everything Else”, p.3, North Atlantic Books

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• Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

  George Galloway

  Thinking, Support, Unions

  "Saddam and me". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2002.

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• The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

  Harriet Martineau

  Grief, May

  Harriet Martineau, Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle (1983). “Harriet Martineau's Letters to Fanny Wedgwood”, p.30, Stanford University Press

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• Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain.

  Robert Adams

  Ocean, Sea, Rivers

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• But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.

  Zadie Smith

  Laughing, Scared, Peanuts

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.272, Vintage

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• They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nature, Animal, Imagination

  Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.97, Penguin

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• Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

  Karl Popper

  Names, Tolerance, Claims

  "The Open Society and Its Enemies". Book by Karl Popper, Volume 1. Notes to Chapter 7, Note 4, 1945.

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• When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• ...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the English. There are still young white men who are angry about that; who will roll out at closing time into the poorly lit streets with a kitchen knife wrapped in a tight fist. But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.

  Zadie Smith

  Men, White Man, Knives

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.272, Vintage

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• Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.

  Roland Barthes

  Sweaters, Expression, Two

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• Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear of her husband, her belief in her honour, my old desire for self-sufficiency, my disappearances, her suspicions of me, my disbelief that she loved me. The paranoia and claustrophobia of hidden love.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Husband, Army, Self

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.238, Vintage

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• Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

  Andrew Murray

  Humility, Self, Vision

  Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility and Absolute Surrender”, p.33, Hendrickson Publishers

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• We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part.

  Karl Marx

  Play, Done, Development

  Karl Marx (1973). “The Karl Marx Library: On the First International”

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