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• Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Buddhism, Hatred

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• Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Heart, Feet

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• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  Saint Augustine

  Government, Justice, Mind

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• It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals.

  John Dewey

  Spring, Fall, Sacrifice

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.154, SIU Press

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• Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

  Adrian Desmond

  Real, Reading, Thinking

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• Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God’s grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.

  Stuart Scott

  Giving, Grace, Promise

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• We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Jobs, Blow, America

  Thurgood Marshall, J. Clay Smith, Jr. (2003). “Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings”, p.15, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-love at once protected me from and subjected me to.... For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.

  Christian Wiman

  Pain, Fall, Believe

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• Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Rights, Order, Political

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.229, Hachette UK

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• The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper. When your love is truly giving and receiving, those whom you love will not leave your heart even when they depart from you. The pain of rejection, absence, and death can become fruitful. Yes, as you love deeply the ground of your heart will be broken more and more, but you will rejoice in the abundance of the fruit it will bear.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Heart, Love Is

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• Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

  George Will

  Passion, Speech, Censorship

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• Absence of pain makes anything possible

  Nicole Blackman

  Pain

  Nicole Blackman (2002). “Blood Sugar”, Akashic Books

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• What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if.

  George Steiner

  Home, Creativity, Men

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.264, Faber & Faber

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• Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

  James Howell

  Distance, Sometimes

  James Howell (1908). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: the familiar letters of James Howell”

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• If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Real, Loss, Government

  "Priebe & Sons., Inc. v. United States, 332 U.S. 407". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. November 17, 1947.

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• The absence of fear is love.

  Chris Murphy

  Fear

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• Health is more than the mere absence of disease, it's the presence of a superior state of well being, a pizzazz, a vitality that has to be worked for each and every day of your life. You cannot get it in a bottle or from Dr. Phil.  Its got to be gotten through diet and execise and rest and recreation and attitudes of mind working all together every day of your life and then, young men can become supermen and old men can become older.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Attitude, Men, Dr Phil

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• There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’

  Madsen Pirie

  Energy, Asking, Poverty

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• Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

  Izzeldin Abuelaish

  Would Be, Abnormal, Violence

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• With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.

  Geno Auriemma

  Pressure, Great Things, Hard

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• Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soul, Superb, My Soul

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes, Act 1, 1943.

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• I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.

  Michael Sandel

  Frustration, Japan, Europe

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• Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.

  Margaret Atwood

  Farewell, Shadow, Flesh

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.76, Anchor

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• The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.

  Bruce Lee

  Taken, Mind, Strive

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.15, Tuttle Publishing

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• Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  God, Christian, Peace

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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