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• The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

  Anna Quindlen

  Empathy, Prejudice, Dollars

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.131, Ballantine Books

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• The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Education, Art, Children

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• What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.

  Joseph Epstein

  Breathing Space, Aggravation, Convenience

  Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press

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• Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Choices, Soul

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• Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.

  Barack Obama

  War, Ignorance, Opportunity

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• Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.

  Virgilia Peterson

  No Hope, Clear, Acceptable

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• Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Movement, Sometimes, Influence

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Government, Office, Simplicity

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• Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.

  John Lennox

  Evidence, Rejoice, Response

  John C. Lennox (2011). “God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?”, p.15, Lion Books

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• The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.

  Pablo Picasso

  Intelligent, Acting, Plot

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• The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Secret, Balance, Life Is

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Feelings, Triumph

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• We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!

  Stefan Molyneux

  Real, War, Cells

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• It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Men, Tree

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stars, Children, Humorous

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, A Defence of Baby-Worship, 1901.

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• In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

  Tony Abbott

  Drawing, Facts, Enough

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• Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a lot of unnecessary business. The absence of disapproval may be accepted as sanction, and publicity and opportunity for discussion and criticism are the really material and valuable elements which henceforth will be introduced.

  Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

  Opportunity, House, Criticism

  Statement, April 1, 1924.

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• I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp it than we can grasp the sun in the sky or the moon in the water. We can feel it interpenetrating our whole being with warmth and strength; we can see it in a pale reflection shining elsewhere; or in its total absence, we, walking in darkness, learn to appreciate what it is by what it is not.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Reflection, Moon, Sky

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• The absent feel and fear every ill.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Ill, Feels, Absent

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1847). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.231

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• Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

  Josh Billings

  Passion, Doe, Virtue

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• The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Law, Two, Perfect

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• Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.

  E. M. Forster

  Noses, Boots, Produce

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

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• Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.

  B. C. Forbes

  Exercise, Men, Careers

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• You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Knows

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.108, Penguin

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• In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

  Joan Didion

  Loss, Natural, Disaster

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.89, Zola Books

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