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• The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

  Daniel Goleman

  Cousin, Knowing, Optimism

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.128, Bantam

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• The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

  Minna Antrim

  Jealousy, Names, Green

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• Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.

  Albert Einstein

  Dark, Simple, Reality

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• Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.

  Albert Einstein

  Heart, Men, Light

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• The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Silence, Sound

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  There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

  Emma Watson

  Strong Women, Overcoming, Have Faith

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• I just think the Kardashians have an absence of taste and I don’t think that that should be perpetuated. I’m sorry I’m sounding like an old farty, snob, but it bothers me.

  Tim Gunn

  Sorry, Thinking, Taste

  "Tim Gunn On Celeb Fashion: "The Kardashians Have An Absence Of Taste"". Interview with Mary S. Park, www.wonderwall.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

  John Cusack

  Serendipity

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• No mistake, I shall regret the absence of your keen mind; unfortunately, it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.

  Gary Cooper

  Regret, Mistake, Mind

  "Fictional character: Professor Bertram Potts". "Ball of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1941.

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• I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Father, Hero, Home

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• This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical developments, into impossible configurations of thought. The poem is built of non-sequiturs, because that's what's left in the wake of the death. We cannot follow the dead, whether they are persons or ideas. Instead we remain, but in a situation that, in their absence, makes no sense.

  Lyn Hejinian

  Ideas, Mourning, Development

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• Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

  Jackie Kay

  Strong, Loss, Looks

  Jackie Kay (2016). “Trumpet: Picador Classic”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.

  Charles M. Blow

  Men, Empathy, Understanding

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• Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

  Charles M. Blow

  Leader, Humanity, Together

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• I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else.

  Marwan Barghouti

  Guy, Helping, Self Help

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• That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep on loving even if they no longer see you at all? People keep on loving even if they are loving someone else? Impossible: to believe you can be loved in absence when you don't even know how it feels to be loved when you are there.

  Camilla Gibb

  Believe, Ideas, People

  Camilla Gibb (2010). “Mouthing The Words”, p.235, Random House

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• Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.

  Amrita Pritam

  Flower, Violence, Blooming Flower

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• I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a girl I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

  Wendell Berry

  Girl, Grief, Dark

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• But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires. Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Teacher, Ideas, Grace

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.198, Vintage

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• There's another way to phrase that and that is that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It is basically saying the same thing in a different way. Simply because you do not have evidence that something does exist does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mean, Doe, Different

  Press Conference, www.nato.int. June 6, 2002.

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• The absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Evidence

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• I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It's the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It's usually junk. Either it's junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Clothes, Junk

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• Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

  John F. Kennedy

  Quality, Faults, Affirmation

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• Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives

  Margaret Beckett

  Future, Vision, Way

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• I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

  Edith Wharton

  Beauty, America, Despair

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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