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• The reaction I got from Sônia [Braga] in less than 48 hours after I sent her the script [Aquarius] was so genuine that it left me stunned. Often when you show people scripts, you get polite, absent-minded reactions, as well as exclamations of "What the f - k is this?".

  Sonia Braga

  Aquarius, People, Scripts

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Absent the net, we certainly couldn't have organized in 190 countries around the world. It's no substitution for face to face interaction - that's why we have "days of action" where people are in real contact with each other - but it's the cheap (and low-carbon) way to do an awful lot of the planning and organizing. And we can build, for $20k, a website as good as one Exxon can build for $20 million.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Real, People

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Prayer, Growing Up

  Thomas Keating (2014). “Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit”, p.5, Lantern Books

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• Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation. Instead we were told it was a "revolutionary" moment, where these new tools would inevitably displace the old media dinosaur and that things would be democratized and wasn't it great we could all collaborate on these platforms.

  Astra Taylor

  Media, Would Be, Tools

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Sports, Believe, Games

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• What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
  Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours
  More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
  O weary reckoning!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Night, Eight

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 4, l. 172

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• The main reasons for dwelling .. on Hayek's model is simply that it has certain properties, absent from most others, that conform exceptionally well to recent neurobiological evidence on memory and that make it particularly suited to the current discourse.

  Joaquin Fuster

  Memories, Dwelling, Reason

  "Memory in the Cerebral Cortex: An Empirical Approach to Neural Networks in the Human and Nonhuman Primate". Book by Joaquin M. Fuster, 1995.

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• The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grace, Doctrine, Discourse

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.73, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians.

  Elvis Costello

  Drinking, Heart, Comedian

  Song: The Comedians, Album: Goodbye Cruel World, 1984

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• Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

  Michael Crichton

  Book, Writing, Location

  "King of the techno-thriller" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2006.

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• It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence, disappeared

  Cassandra Clare

  Missing, Gone, Notable

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• Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sick, Succeed, Groups

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• Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Veterans Day, Military

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• I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.

  Joyce Giraud

  Phones, Matter, Tvs

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• The Judo pupil, therefore, must cultivate his mind; he must never feel fear, never lose his temper, never be off his guard; but he must be cool and calm, though not absent-minded; he must act as quick as thought, according to circumstances. He must also be dexterous as well as bold both in attack and in defense.

  Yokoyama Sakujiro

  Mind, Defense, Calm

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• It hasn't always easy to combine these two competing ambitions and, in retrospect, it's a shame no one steered me towards science communications, which I think would have suited me down to the ground. But careers advice has largely been absent from my life, so I have pretty much made it up as I've gone along!

  Suw Charman-Anderson

  Communication, Ambition, Thinking

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• Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Touching, Human Nature

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2017

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• When you seek a connection to God, you suffer. God is not absent.

  Mark Whitwell

  Suffering, Connections

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• Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. One word absent from a sentence can drastically change the true intended meaning of the entire sentence. For instance, if the word love is intentionally or accidentally replaced with hate in a sentence, its effect could trigger a war or false dogma.

  Suzy Kassem

  Hate, War, Love Is

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• Cash, though, is to a business as oxygen is to an individual: never thought about when it is present, the only thing in mind when it is absent... When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

  Warren Buffett

  Home, Oxygen, Mind

  "Warren Buffett busts a cash myth". Warren Buffett's 2014 annual letter to the shareholders of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, www.valueresearchonline.com. March 4, 2015.

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• Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has become a part of me and yet now belongs to the world and generations to come.

  Glen Keane

  Phones, Years, Doodling

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• The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Memories, Heart

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Awakening, Fullness

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

  George Herbert

  House

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.361

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• New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

  Roland Barthes

  New York, Real, Men

  Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). “Barthes: Selected Writings”

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