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• absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Decay, Fancy, Affection

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• A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Excellence, Degrees

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• The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Time, Essence, Suffering

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.52, New World Library

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• Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

  Richard Whately

  Sight, Firsts

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• Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.

  Eda LeShan

  Cutting, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

  John Berger

  Real, Painting, Real Things

  1988 In New Statesman and Society,15 Jul.

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• And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the present, that holds meaning and spiritual significance for so many members of the dominating culture. It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.

  Linda Hogan

  Spiritual, Past, Attachment

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• You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.

  Karen Katafiasz

  Grieving, Looks, Awakening

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• Given the ... multidisciplinary philosophy, I was surprised by the absence of alternative pain approaches - the whole spectrum of cranial-sacral massage, healing-touch therapy, and other hands-on skills that are a lifeline to many people with chronic pain. Alternative therapie are hard to evaluate, but that's no reason not to explore them.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Philosophy, Healing

  Marni Jackson (2002). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, Crown Pub

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• Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists to reduce. America has not moved as far as it thinks it has beyond the argument about the New Deal, when FDR insisted, "Necessitous men are not free men."

  George Will

  Party, Men, Thinking

  "Monica And Other GOP Calamities" by George Will, www.sfgate.com. February 1, 1999.

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• We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragmentary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Memories, Children, Believe

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.

  W. Rolfe Kerr

  Mistake, Creative, Progress

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• Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

  Florinda Donner

  Freedom, About Yourself, Concern

  Florinda Donner (1991). “Being-in-dreaming”, Harpercollins

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• The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.

  David E. Sorensen

  Jesus, Pain, Suffering

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• Every man is responsible for defending every woman and every child. When the male no longer takes this role, when he no longer has the courage or feels the moral responsibility, then that society will no longer be a society where honor and virtue are esteemed. Laws and government cannot replace this personal caring and commitment. In the absence of the Warrior protector, the only way that a government can protect a society is to remove the freedom of the people. And the sons and daughters of lions become sheep.

  James Williams

  Daughter, Children, Commitment

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• Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Trying, Three Things

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• The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.

  Sam Waterston

  Life, Teaching, Character

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• Art is the absence of fear.

  Erykah Badu

  Art, Art Is

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• What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

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• Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting, exploration, and trade. Water assured his welfare, its absence meant migration or death, its constancy nourished his spirit. A mountain, a desert, or a great forest might serve his need of strength, but water reflects his inner needs.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Men, Hunting, Water

  Sigurd F. Olson (2012). “Wilderness Days”, p.44, U of Minnesota Press

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• The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Military, Skulls

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• Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.

  Tristram Stuart

  Animal, Numbers, Heartless

  "Happy Hunting" by Tristram Stuart, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2006.

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• I was surprised at the silence and the absence of movement which our departure caused among the spectators, and believed them to be astonished and perhaps awed at the strange spectacle; they might well have reassured themselves. I was still gazing when M. Rozier cried to me - "You are doing nothing, and the balloon is scarcely rising a fathom."

  Francois Laurent d'Arlandes

  Silence, Departure, Might

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• Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Opposites, Doe, Want

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

  Bill Nighy

  Doe, Way, Admire

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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