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• Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

  Julie Christie

  Thinking, Interesting, Suffering

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• It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

  Antonin Artaud

  Order, Drug, Feels

  "Appeal to Youth: Intoxication-Disintoxication (1934)". "Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings". Book by Antonin Artaud, 1976.

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• There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.

  Harold Pinter

  America, Criminals, United States

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• In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

  Derek Bailey

  Thinking, Play, Solo

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• The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

  King Hussein I

  Justice, Way, Violence

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• It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Southern, Maintenance

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• 'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

  Frederick William Thomas

  Love, Art, Believe

  Frederick William Thomas (1847). “Clinton Bradshaw: Or, The Adventures of a Lawyer. Two Volumes in One”, p.117

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• Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Technology, Rights, Oppression

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• Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

  Propertius

  Speech, Speak, Ill

  "Elegies, II". Book by Sextus Propertius, c. 24 B.C.

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• Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Depressing, Landmarks

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.947, eBookIt.com

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

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Home, House, Matter

  "Gigi". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1945.

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• While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.

  Ray Kroc

  Important, Guarantees, Advantage

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Literature

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• Woman absent is woman dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Absent

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• In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

  Alfred Marshall

  Purpose, Use, May

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

  Marcel Carne

  Mother, Stills, Felt

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• There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

  Philip James Bailey

  Intellectual, Excellence, Quality

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• My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

  Ezra Cornell

  Children, Mind, Dear God

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• Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

  Irving Babbitt

  Military, Men, Kind Man

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• The absence of war is not peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  War

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• Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

  Bills, Lord, Provision

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 2-3, Address to the Electors of the City of London (April 6, 1859), 1922.

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• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  Karl Radek

  Country, Party, Labour Movement

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• We have really no absent friends.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Absent Friends, Absent

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

  Tucker Carlson

  Age, Superstitions, Middle

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• The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Consolation, Ultimate, I Can

  Shelagh Delaney (1959). “A Taste of Honey: A Play”, p.17, Grove Press

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