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• Absence diminishes minor passions and inflames great ones, as the wind douses a candle and fans a fire.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

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• I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

  Brendan Behan

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• Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

  Freya Stark

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

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• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  Baruch Spinoza

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• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  Baruch Spinoza

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• Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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• Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

  Gerald G. Jampolsky

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• In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

  Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

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  Tags in Absence, Ugliness

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  I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

   

  Thomas Hardy

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  To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

  Hal Borland

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• There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

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• In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

  Elijah Wood

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  Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.

  Roger De Rabutin

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• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  Zhuangzi

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  Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of christ.

  Sheila Walsh

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  There is one pain I often feel which you will never know because it is caused by the absence of you.

  Unknown

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• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

  Bertrand Russell

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• In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

  Barack Obama

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• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear

  Mark Twain

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