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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

  Albert Camus

  Space, Moments

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• The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Stupid, Army

  War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 11 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

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• Absent in body, but present in spirit.

  Paul the Apostle

  Body, Spirit, Absence

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• A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Work, Men, Two

  Sir Max Beerbohm, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1924*). “Hebert Beerbohm Tree: some memories of him and of his art collected by Max Beerbohm”

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• Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sight, Mind, Of Sight Out Of Mind

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• The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ignorance, Vanity, Causes

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  I Miss You, Romantic, Missing You

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• We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

  Jacques Lacan

  Communication, Men, Splits

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• I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

  Mark Twain

  Discovery, Talking, People

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2924, Delphi Classics

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• Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased

  John James Audubon

  Mother, Father, Navy

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• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

  Lucretius

  Blow, Mind, Dungeons

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• You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

  John Chafee

  House, Needs, Done

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• Paul Riser tells it in an interesting way; he dissects it and tells the structure, you know, 'you don't mention that part here.' But that's what's interesting about it and the people who are absent are interesting too.

  Bob Saget

  People, Interesting, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am the owner of my choices. I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess that particular perspective. It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses. I will look into that mirror little bits at a time. SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able. This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Responsibility, Mirrors

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• From you have I been absent in the spring,
  When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,
  Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Proud, Youth

  Sonnet 98

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• Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
  [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

  Tacitus

  Portraits, Cassius, Brutus

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• Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Dear Friend, Stills

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.156

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• Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God.

  Barry Long

  Mind, Robots, Problem

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1983.

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• Friends, though absent, are still present.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Absence, Absent Friends

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.181

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• I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Race, People

  "Empty, ruined and desperate" by Julian Borger, Duncan Campbell and Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2005.

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• There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

  Jeff Buckley

  Singing

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• The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.

  Samuel Daniel

  Danger, Stills, Greater

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.283

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• In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

  William Styron

  Sad, Depression, Crush

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