Absence Quotes - Page 24

• Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed to pay off. Some become friends and say friends for life. Some change in our absence - or perhaps it is we who change in theirs - and we meet up again only to find that we don’t get along any more.

  Mark Haddon

  Distance, Book, Hard Work

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• Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence.

  Laura Ramirez

  Pain, Love You, Deeply In Love

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• Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Government, Humanity

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• Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

  Deborah Tannen

  Mean, Cooperation, Conflict

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• Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Bugs, Programming, Shows

  "Software Engineering Techniques". Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee in Rome, Italy, edited by J.N. Buxton and B. Randell, October 27-31, 1969.

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• The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

  Herodotus

  Envy, Secret, Secret To Success

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• It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

  Mark Epstein

  Kind, Difficult

  Mark Epstein (2013). “Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.46, Basic Books

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• I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing breath. This is the strange thing about presence and absence. When we breath in, our bodies are filled with nutrients and nourishment. Our blood is filled with oxygen, our skin gets flush; our bones get harder-they get compacted. Our muscles get toned and we feel very present when we're breathing in. The problem is, that when we're breathing in, we can't speak. So presence and silence have something to do with each other.

  Li-Young Lee

  Thinking, Oxygen, Blood

  "The Totality of Causes". Interview with Tina Chang, www.poets.org. February 21, 2014.

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• Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Hands, Mind

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• In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Instinct, Certainty

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• Let there be an end to the arrogance of the big powers who miss no opportunity to put the rights of the people in question. Africa's absence from the club of those who have the right to veto is unjust and should be ended.

  Thomas Sankara

  Opportunity, Rights, People

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a
  destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere
  arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

  Kenneth Turan

  Regret, Silence, Sound

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• Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.

  Stuart Wilde

  Bravery, Ability, Terrified

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• Many Christians are either woefully deficient in their knowledge of Scripture or noticeably devoid of any experience of God's power. The Lord never intended this for His people. We have all seen firsthand the joyless intellectual arrogance the absence of spiritual power can produce, as well as the fanatical emotional excess that comes from the lack of theological integrity.

  Sam Storms

  Christian, Spiritual, Integrity

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• The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Political, Vices

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Owing, Want, Firsts

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1063, Manonmani Publishers

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• Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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• The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own. That is what love is. And the sorrow comes primarily from selfishness, which is the absence of love. The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Love Is, Joy, Sorrow

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• Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Insecurity, Security

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “The Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday World”, p.12, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vulgarity Is, Inability, Pieces

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman (2005). “Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings”, p.190, Cambridge University Press

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• Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fighting, Light, Darkness

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Self, Perfect

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• Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Competition, Oppression, Economic Competition

  "Economic Harmonies". Book by Frédéric Bastiat, 1850.

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• In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Issues, Wake Up

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• OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ostriches, Wings, Bird

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.176, University of Georgia Press

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