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Tag Name "Absence" (839)

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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
Alain de Botton
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The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.
Frank Chodorov
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Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls and so on.
Ann Coulter
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It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.
Elon Musk
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Darkness is only light's absence.
Andrew Clements
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Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.
Thomas Boswell
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In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.
Peter Senge
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Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.
Richard Lamm
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The mere absence of war is not peace.
John F. Kennedy
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But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.
Lawrence Hill
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An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence
Haruki Murakami
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Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall
George Fetherling
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
George Saintsbury
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What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs.
Jacques Chirac
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True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt
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The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.
Ursula Hegi
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The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.
Paul Wolfowitz
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Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
Daisaku Ikeda
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We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
John McCain
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I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.
Marya Hornbacher
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The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.
Bruce Lee
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I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare
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