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• The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us

  Francine Noel

  Missing You, Love Is, Feelings

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• The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. It's common to have racism without racists.

  Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  Ill Will, Racism, Prejudice

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• Never have anything to do with likes and dislikes. The absence of what one likes is painful, as is the presence of what one dislikes. Therefore don't take a liking to anything. To lose what one likes is hard, but there are no bonds for those who have no likes and dislikes. From preference arises sorrow, from preference arises fear, but he who is freed from preference has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fear, Likes And Dislikes, Sorrow

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• The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Love, Self, Perfection

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• It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am not their family, and no amount of birthing sons, and cooking dinner and raking leaves or planting the gardens or paying for the plane tickets is going to change that. If I don't come back in eleven months, I will not be missed, and no one will write me or call me to acknowledge my absence. Which is not an accusation, just a small truth about clan and bloodline.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Writing, Son, Garden

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• Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They're 'only rodents'. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They're 'just chickens'. They aren't human, so they don't count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn't justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman.

  Joan Dunayer

  Hurt, Pain, Empathy

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• Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

  Irshad Manji

  Important, Recognition, Fear Courage

  "Glenn Beck", www.cnn.com. February 13, 2007.

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• Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the heart; and invoking with an absence of self-awareness because of absorption in the Invoked is the invocation of the Self - this is the hidden invocation!

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Heart, Names, Presence Of Mind

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• Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Technology, Design, Graphic Design

  "Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Freddie Ossberg, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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• The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent - that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.

  John Tyler

  Religious, Law, Presidential

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• Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, War, Mean

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• The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground.

  Steve Pavlina

  Fear, Stress, Exercise

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• As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss.

  Robert Wiersema

  Loss, Perfect, Parent

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• If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

  Heloise

  Memories, Regret, Character

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• Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence). The absence of integrity, honesty, and honor do not always bring punishment or scorn, and can be life-aggrandizing (connivers and cheats often gain power and wealth). Therefore, morality must be its own reward.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Honesty, Integrity, Punishment

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• Five years have come, and five years have gone, and still we stand together as one. We come back to this place to remember the heartbreaking anniversary - and each person who died here - those known and unknown to us, whose absence is always with us.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Heart, Years, September 11

  "America Marks 5-Year Anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, Attacks". www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2006.

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• The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Mindfulness, Your Presence

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.91, New World Library

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• It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.

  Colin Greenwood

  Passion, Men, Domestic Violence

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• We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.

  Carl Icahn

  Real, Roots, America

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• She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Suffering

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• The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, World, Sensitivity

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006.

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• Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

  Louis Aragon

  Real, Eruption, Contradiction

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• In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

  Isaac Newton

  Thumbs, Proof, Existence

  "Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective", Vol. 1, Issues 7-12, p. 47, 1978.

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• The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature.

  Charles Darwin

  Groups, Links, Difficulty

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text”, p.518, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• In the absence of observers, our universe is dead

  Andrei Linde

  Observers, Universe

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